Aims and Method

I am particularly interested in jealousy within relationships. Most of the research I've done has shown about jealousy within marital relationships and extramarital relationships. However, I'm more interested in jealousy within teenage relationships.

Aims:
· I am trying to find out how people cope with jealousy within relationships and why it may occur in relationships.
· I am also trying to find out if ways of coping with extramarital relationships can be applied to other types of jealousy, especially teenage relationships.

Method:
To do this, I am going to create a questionnaire asking people about their views on jealousy and how they cope. I will ask about the findings from the psychologists Bryson and Buunk to confirm them and to see if Buunk's findings can be applied to other situations. I am going to get a wide sample as I can and an even mix of males and females. Hopefully this will enable me to find out more about peoples thought processes and feelings when feeling jealous. I know that people may not answer completely truthfully but I will stress to them that it's important for my research that the answers are as truthful as possible.

I am using a self report method because it is the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to gather data.