Why do people get jealous in romantic relationships?

Abstract

There is one that influence every one, no matter how positive behavior he exhibits but is still caught by the green eyed monster”, or in other words is known as jealousy. This paper is based on the idea jealousy that spins around the question regarding the factor of jealousy in romantic relationship. This paper will investigate the psychological attributes of the jealousy especially in the romantic relationships. This paper will also contribute to the idea that how this affects people and how they express their feelings when influenced with the jealousy. It also investigates the ideas that are essential for the healthier relationship. It also discusses how the factor of the jealousy is related to gender difference.

Why Do People Get Jealous In Romantic Relationships?

Introduction

There are many factors to define the factor of jealousy. This depends upon the methods to the research as it not an old terminology and different modes of jealousy are coming into the focus that also include morbid jealousy as stated by Harris (2004). But still it can be distributed according to two main classes that is, normal and abnormal jealousy. Normal jealousy can be explained as the when there exist a real threat for the infidelity and the abnormal is when the treat does not really exist and is appeared as the psychological factor of the partner or the person in the relationship (Hansen & Zheng).

Discussion

The phrase 'morbid jealousy' is enlisted under the category of abnormal jealousy because usually exhibited by the fear of infidelity and can be visible as extreme anger and depression

(Harris). Pathological jealousy occurs when there is a lower self esteem with in an individual and there appears a threat to the relationship. So it is observed that almost all the individuals are suffering from some kind of jealousy, if not suffering from the romantic jealousy.

Romantic Jealousy can be termed as the reaction to the most appearing threat that is followed by the perceived threat to the exclusive romantic nature of the relationship (Bringle & Boebinger, 1990). The person who is experiencing the romantic jealousy regards this as the multidimensional that comprises of many other factors like being emotional, cognitive and behavioral jealousy (Pfeiffer & Wong, 1989). According to the research that has been carried by the Pfeiffer and Wong's it has been found that the relationship of the jealousy directly influences the love. He further explains that cognitive jealousy is negatively related to love, while emotional jealousy is positively related to love. This has been explained that marital satisfaction has a strong and direct association with the decrease in cognitive jealousy (Guerrero & Eloy, 1992). This also explain that the relational length also make influences on the behavioral jealousy (Guerrero & Jorgensen, 1991).

The comprehensive theory of jealousy has been explained by the Guerrero and Andersen (1998) that is related to the experience and the expression in the romantic relationship. Their model has explained the six antecedents with respect to the romantic ...