Analysis: Responses To Jealousy

3) Do you respond to jealousy in any of these ways?

Analysis:

I used this question to check the research done by Jeff Bryson (1991), who identified eight modes of response:
- Emotional devastation,
- Reactive retribution (get even),
- Arousal (intensify ardor or interest in partner),
- Need for social support (more intensive interaction with friends),
- Intropunitiveness (blame and punish oneself for being jealous),
- Confrontation (confront the situation directly),
- Anger,
- Impression management (make others think don't care/get drunk or high).

The results show that people do respond to jealousy in all of these ways, impression management being the most common. One participant said that feeling jealous made themselves feel motivated to work harder.