Understanding Jealousy Evocation in Romantic Relationships

This article discusses the concept of jealousy evocation in romantic relationships and its predictors, including commitment, satisfaction, and uncertainty. The study involved 375 individuals in relationships, and the findings suggest that commitment is the greatest predictor of jealousy evoking behavior. However, the study has limitations, such as the duration of the relationship and the collection of responses from only one partner.

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Question and answers
1. Jealousy evocation is the way of evoking jealousy in a partner intentionally to
maintain a relationship, or a particular love style or to get revenge or a reward (Pytlak,
Zerega, & Houser, 2015).
Example :A student seeing her boyfriend giving a flirtatious smile to another girl.
A best friend sowing dedication to other student.
Reasons :
Some of the suggested reason in the paper for jealousy evocation are uncertainity or anxiety
about a particular relationship, or a particular style of love, or to increase compassion and
satisfaction or to get a revnege or a reward.
2. Research question- How much varience is predicted in jealousy evoking behaviour by
satisfaction, relational commitment and uncertainty?
Hypotheses-
 Inversed relationship will be found between the partners perceived level of
commitment and the utilisation of the jelousy evoking behaviours.
 Inverse relationship will be found between the relational satisfaction of the
participants and the utilisation of the jelousy evoking behaviours.
 Positive relationship will be present btween the relatiobal uncertainty of the
participants and the utilisation of the jelousy evoking behaviours.
3. Participants- 375 inidividuals in romantic relationship

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Methods- A 52 item survey was distributed via the Survey Monkey to 375 participants
engaged in romantic relationship. The instruments used were Evoking jelousy measured
by the evoking jelousy scale, satisfaction scale, Commitment level measured by the
Relational Commitment Scale and relational uncertainty measurd by the Relational
Uncertainty Scale by Knobloch and Solomon.
4. As per the findings , commitment turns as the greatest predictor of the jealousy
evoking behaviour more than partner satisfaction and uncertainty. While assessing all
the variables, all of them are highly related.
5. Limitation- The study included individuals in relationship from three months to two
years. Involving participants for more than two years in relationship would have yield
a different result. Secondly, responses had been collected from only one partners.
Collecting information from both the partners might have increased the credibility of
the research. Another limitation might be the social desirability. Since there is a
negative connotation associated with the word jealousy, the responses might be
biased.
Bonus question
It has been discussed in this paper that partners evoke jelousy to keep the charm of their
relationship intact . Some of them evenuse it to assess their partners having low levels of
commitment. Hence they use jelousy evocation as a maintenance behaviour.

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References
Pytlak, M. A., Zerega, L. M., & Houser, M. L. (2015). Jealousy Evocation: Understanding
Commitment, Satisfaction, and Uncertainty as Predictors of Jealousy-Evoking Behaviors.
Communication Quarterly, 63(3), 310-328. doi:10.1080/01463373.2015.1039716