The Relationship between Jealousy and Mate Retention Strategies in Romantic Relationships among Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2023 Jealousy and mate retention have received attention in research over the last few decades. Despite this, most of the research has examined male jealousy and male mate retention, emphasizing cost-inflicting behavior due to its role in relationships and ...
Paulina Degiuli +2 more
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Gender differences in romantic jealousy and attachment styles [PDF]
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2017 Objective: We examined the gender differences and attachment styles with regard to the phenomenology of jealousy among married individuals. Method: The study included 86 married couples who presented to the Marriage Counselling Centre at the Bakırköy ...
Oya Güçlü +3 more
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Extending the study of playfulness in romantic life: Analyzing associations with attachment and jealousy in same-gender and opposite-gender couples [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAdult playfulness describes individual differences in (re)framing situations so that they are experienced as entertaining, and/or interesting, and/or intellectually stimulating. There is increasing interest in its role for romantic life.
Kay Brauer +2 more
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Measurement Invariance of the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale and Quality of Relationships Inventory (Friend) [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThe aim of this study is to measure the invariance of the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale (MJS) and of the Quality of Relationships Inventory (Friend) (QRI-F) across gender, age, education, and being in a romantic relationship in a Portuguese sample (N =
Ãngela Leite +6 more
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An Experimental Test of Jealousy's Evolved Function: Imagined Partner Infidelity Induces Jealousy, Which Predicts Positive Attitude Towards Mate Retention [PDF]
Evolutionary PsychologyJealousy may have evolved to motivate adaptive compensatory behavior in response to threats to a valued relationship. This suggests that jealousy follows a temporal sequence: A perceived relational threat induces state feelings of jealousy which in turn ...
Steven Arnocky +3 more
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Validation of the Short-Facebook Jealousy Scale among Colombian Men and Women
Acta Colombiana de Psicología, 2023 Social networks, particularly Facebook, influence romantic relationships, as they can generate jealousy and conflict between members of the couple. The Facebook Jealousy Scale (FJS) is an instrument that assesses jealousy about using Facebook, but no ...
María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes +4 more
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Adult Attachment and Personality as Predictors of Jealousy in Romantic Relationships
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Functional relationships between romantic jealousy and traits, such as neuroticism or adult attachment styles, are well-known. For the first time, we conducted a joint analysis of the Big Five traits and attachment dimensions as predictors of jealousy ...
Marina Richter +3 more
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Competitor derogation in romantic jealousy and friendship rivalry. [PDF]
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2022 The present study tested whether different psychological mechanisms are defending threats to romantic relationships and close same-sex friendships. Depending on condition, the participants first read a scenario that introduced a competitor threatening either a romantic relationship or a close same-sex friendship.
Achim Schützwohl +2 more
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Social Psychological Bulletin, 2022 Romantic jealousy is a multidimensional response to a perceived threat to one’s relationship or self-esteem and the specific emotions experienced in the process are complex and interrelated, affecting one another.
Paulina Banaszkiewicz
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Jealousy as a Function of Rival Characteristics: Two large replication studies and meta-analyses support gender differences in reactions to rival attractiveness but not dominance [PDF]
, 2020 Jealousy is a key emotion studied in the context of romantic relationships. One seminal study (Dijkstra, P., & Buunk, B. (1998). Jealousy as a function of rival characteristics: An evolutionary perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24 (
Pollet, Thomas, Saxton, Tamsin
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