Romantic Jealousy, Love, and Marital Quality in Married Individuals

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between romantic jealousy, love, and marital quality in married couples. The sampling methods to collect data were convenient, purposive, and snowball sampling method. A sample of 200 married participants with a marriage duration between 2 and 15 years (M=5.07, SD= 3.27). Demographic Questionnaire, Romantic Jealousy Scale (Zahid &Tariq, 2020), The Traingular Love Scale (Sternberg,1989) and The Quality of Marriage Index ( Almaisi et al., 2018) were to be measured respectively. The Descriptives and Reliability Analysis, Pearson Correlation Analysis and Mediation through structural modelling were measured in the present study. The results of correlation analysis shows that romantic jealousy had a significant negative correlation with passion,commitment and marital quality. In mediation analysis love approves to play the mediator between romantic jealousy and marital quality. All paths are shown to be significant. These findings have important implications for clinical practice, education, research, couple therapy, policy-making, and public health policy. This study will contribute to prevention measures as emerging adults have to go later in their marital, social, and professional lives. Educational programs and couple therapy should be designed to promote healthy and responsible awareness about relationships and their dynamics to increase awareness in young couples. Future research should explore the underlying mechanisms consider moderating factors and do qualitative research on couples. Despite the limitation, this study will contribute to understating the determinant factors that affect the quality of love through jealousy among couples and the cause of the decrease in marital quality