Jealousy experience and expression in romantic relationships

The Romantic Jealousy as Multidimensional Construct: A Study on the Italian Short Form of the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale

“…As expected, and in line with previous research [7,21,47], our results showed a positive link between romantic jealousy and insecure attachment in a romantic relationship. In particular, individuals characterized by a high level of anxious attachment to partner tend to experience higher cognitive, emotional, and behavioral jealousy, displaying negative effects and frequent control behaviors.…”

Tickling the monster: Jealousy induction in relationships

“…Jealousy is defined as 'a complex of thoughts, emotions and actions that follows loss or threat to self-esteem and/or the existence or quality of the romantic relationship' (White, 1980, p. 222). Romantic jealousy is a set of thoughts, emotions and responses following a perceived threat to a romantic relationship by a rival (Guerrero & Andersen, 1998b;Teismann & Mosher, 1978). Jealousy occurs when a person desires to protect a relationship with someone perceived as already possessed, in contrast to envy, which involves the desire for something or someone not currently possessed (Guerrero & Andersen, 1998b).…”

“…Such are some of the ironies of intimacy. One phenomenon that lies at the nexus of such dialectics is jealousy (Guerrero & Andersen, 1998a, 1998b. Jealousy likely serves multiple functions in the management of relationships and results in a variety of potential relational effects.…”

Experiencing and Communicating Romantic Jealousy: Questioning the Investment Model

“…Namely, Guerrero and Andersen's (1998a) componential model of jealousy has received support in independent tests (e.g., Aylor & Dainton, 2001) and Bevan's (2006) recent consequence model of partner jealousy expression has the potential to theoretically enhance understanding of the impact of a partner's jealousy expression to the jealousy target. Relational communication scholars may thus want to continue to shift their focus away from adapting socialpsychological models to jealousy expression and instead to develop their own theories.…”

“…However, the expression of jealousy often serves as an important avenue for molding, altering, or affecting the nature of the relationship (Duck, 1992). Accordingly, research (Guerrero & Andersen, 1998a;Guerrero et al, 1995) has established 14 communicative responses to jealousy (CRJs), which are defined as behavioral responses to jealousy that possess communicative value and have the potential to fulfill goals that are individual and=or relational in nature. The 14 CRJs can be classified as either interactive-efforts at directly communicating or avoiding communication with the partner-or general-actions that do not necessarily involve direct communication with a relational partner .…”