Five Languages of Love
Which channel affection has to arrive on before it registers.
- Questions
- 40
- 6 min
- Chapman's five-category model
What this is
The five categories are Gary Chapman's. The items are ours and are scored independently on 1–100, not forced against each other — so all five can be high, or none.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedChapman's five-category model
The five love languages are Gary Chapman's (1992) and are public. His own 30-item quiz is copyrighted and forces choices between languages, so it is not used.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Further reading
- Chapman, G. (1992). The five love languages: How to express heartfelt commitment to your mate (opens in a new tab). Chicago: Northfield Publishingpopular book
- Bunt, S., & Hazelwood, Z. J. (2017). Walking the walk, talking the talk: Love languages, self-regulation, and relationship satisfaction (opens in a new tab). Personal Relationships, 24(2), 280–290critique
- Impett, E. A., Park, H. G., & Muise, A. (2024). Popular psychology through a scientific lens: Evaluating love languages from a relationship science perspective (opens in a new tab). Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(2), 87–92critique
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.