研究發現，個體對愛的信念會影響其對性的態度，對性的態度亦被視為是愛情的一部分。再者，研究亦顯示出，某些人認為性不等於愛，另有許多人卻是將性與愛連繫在一起，其中可能隱含著個體在愛與性觀念上具有的差異性。此外，研究者認為在現今社會中親密伴侶在處理感情事件所表現出的無力感，其中可能牽涉到個體對愛與性觀念所具有的認知差異性，包括不同年代的個體，以及因歷史演化和社會文化教育而造成的性別差異。上述現象亟需再次探討與省思，亦是本研究主要的研究目的。是以，研究者以便利取樣法抽取667名年齡介於17～27歲的N世代有效樣本，並以自編的21題Likert六點量表形式的愛與性觀念問卷，蒐集他們在伴侶親密關係中對愛與性所持有的看法。研究結果發現，在愛與性的觀念上具有年代差異，男性在年代上的差異性較為明顯，且時代的變遷對個體的影響性大於出生年次。再者，本研究亦顯示出性別在愛與性觀念的差異性，其中男性對無愛之性的寬容度及對愛專一性的要求均較女性大，他們也常常需要靠性來證明彼此的愛，而女性則較為依賴伴侶。此外，本研究也討論到男性對愛專一性的執著，女性在自主性和依賴性間的平衡，可能是兩性面臨親密伴侶背叛時非理性回應的原因之一。是以，建議未來研究可以探究具高度占有性、過度依賴性或是共依附特質傾向明顯的女性與親密伴侶的互動模式，以及她們在處理嫉妒情境或是與伴侶衝突時可能有的因應策略。

Research has found that an individual’s attitude toward love could influence his / her attitude about sex. In the meantime, an individual viewpoint regarding sex could be considered as one part of his/her attitude about love. Research has also found that some people thought that sex was not equal to love; however, on the contrary other people mixed love with sex. The above evidences meant that there were individual differences in attitudes about love and sex. Furthermore, the researcher thought that the helplessness when the couples struggled for a cozy romantic love might involve in these kinds of individual differences, that is to say, generation differences and gender differences in attitudes about love and sex resulted from the historical evolution and sociocultural education. Therefore, the above phenomena were needed to be explored again and deeply, and became the main purpose of this research. The researcher sampled conveniently 667 youths among 17-27 years old by a self-developed questionnaire with 21 six-likert scaling items regarding an individual attitude about love and sex. The results showed that there were generational differences in the attitudes about love and sex, and these differences were more significant in males. There were also gender differences in the attitudes about love and sex. In general, male attitudes toward sex without love were more lenient than females’. Males also required that their partners’ love was exclusively for them. Males mixed love and sex very often, and considered sexual behaviors could prove love. In the meantime, females were more dependent on their partners than males. Secondly, the research discussed that males’ persistence in exclusiveness and females’ struggle for the balance of autonomy and codependency might be one of the reasons that they used destructive coping strategies when they faced with partner’s betrayal. In addition, the research also proposed that the interactions of couples with high level of exclusiveness, high tendency of codependency and their coping strategies under romantic jealous condition could be future study.