Author(s)

Mihyang Ju^1,2, Yi Li^1,3, Yang Lee^1,4

¹Center of Gih Study, Jinju, South Korea.
²Department of Education, Korea National Open University, Seoul, South Kore.
³Department of Ethics Education, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea.
⁴Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, China.

Love is thought as a purpose, conferring on ethics and religions and as means used to varieties of social relations. This study’s tool of the questionnaire was designed to ask people how loves of brothers (or sisters), and friends both of which are critical for religion and ethics are distributed on the dimensions as behavioral, emotional, and cognitional, comparing the features of other loves. This study’s results of rating response on 7-scale were F tested to show that the love for brothers is more emotional, less cognitional, and less behavioral than the profiles of love for friends, and furthermore that love for brothers is similar to love for parents, and love for friends to love for partner. This study’s implication is commented as that the love features for bothers, and for friends could be attended by moral and religious concerns for human happiness since they have been misunderstood by some prejudices.

Love for Brothers, Love of Friends, Behavior, Emotion, Cognition

Ju, M. , Li, Y. and Lee, Y. (2019) Love for Brothers and Friends Featured as Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitional to Confer on Religion and Ethics. Psychology, 10, 1485-1492. doi: 10.4236/psych.2019.1011097.