Conclusions

Conclusions

• Jealousy occurs extremely often, even over very small things.
• Jealousy can be responded to in eight different ways, as identified by Bryson.
• The 3 strategies that Buunk identified as ways of coping with extra marital relationships can be applied to other forms of jealousy.
• Participants said the best way of coping with jealousy is communication or analysing the situation.
• There are many different forms of jealousy, but ultimately it’s because someone else seems better than you, whether of possessions, personality or looks.
• Jealousy is connected with negative emotional feelings and generally the person feeling jealous feels like what they have isn’t good enough.
• Jealousy occurs within most relationships and generally more between people with less trust. This can occur for many different reasons.
• The main reason for people feeling jealous in a relationship is because they feel their partner is becoming too close with someone of the opposite sex.
• The most common way of dealing with this is to talk about it, however, a substantial number of participants will ignore it and not do anything.