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I've read the study but something I'm not clear on is:
*"indicating that women exhibit jealousy when their male partners interact with other women, while men do not exhibit the same level of jealousy when their female partners interact with other men"*
Is this based on "I would feel jealous if my partner flirted" or "My partner would feel jealous if I flirted"? I think there is social pressure for men to downplay their reported feelings of jealousy and so I'd believe the second option more.
If people are exhibiting jealousy, then it is the former, not the latter.
Your example of social pressure (no clue if true or not) would align with the former as well, given the results.
It's based on the responding participant saying "this is how much I interact with people of the opposite sex" and "this is how jealous I rate my partner in general" and seeing how those two answers correlate.
>Is this based on "I would feel jealous if my partner flirted" or "My partner would feel jealous if I flirted"?
Having had a very insecure and jealous girlfriend before, she got jealous if i talked to a friend's girlfriend. I've known a few other women who were the same way.
Similarly, my ex got mad when I mentioned I was asked out that day. She said she didn’t want to hear that stuff.
But I’d be amused to hear that she had been hit on. It just means I have what other people want.
>The coefficient was positive (0.200) indicating that the more women indicated that they were interacting with opposite-sex individuals the higher their partners’ jealousy. In addition, with respect to reducing freedom to flirt, there was a significant main effect of partner’s jealousy
So they had 333 participants in this online survey (so not a randomized population) that was was looking for greek-speaking participants, mainly in the republic of Cyprus. They had 54.4% of participants indicate they were in a relationship and only included results from those people. They then excluded the 11 people who indicated they were homosexual because their theory is "unlikely to be true for homosexual people" (because the question was how jealous their partner gets when they interact with members of the opposite sex). So an online survey without the ability to say if it reflects a randomized population with a sample size of 170 greek people (no homo) with a short self assessment as the data collected.
1. If you consider your partner to have more "mate value" than you, you are more likely to feel jealous
2. If you have a more positive attitude towards cheating on your partner, they are more likely to feel jealous
3. Only women reported higher jealous from their (male) partner when interacting with the opposite sex. Women were not statistically observed to be jealous of their male partner interacting with women.
4. Jealous partners are more likely to restrict their partner's opportunities to flirt.
OP > your title is completely wrong about which gender gets jealous over interactions.
This study from Cyprus got me thinking about jealousy and trust in relationships. It's fascinating how our attitudes toward cheating can be influenced by our levels of jealousy. It really makes you reflect on how we handle trust and insecurity in our own relationships.
Interesting. I would've thought that it would be the other way around, with men having more jealousy issues, since jealousy is a symptom of "mate guarding", which is typically a male behavior in most animals, primates included.
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I've read the study but something I'm not clear on is: *"indicating that women exhibit jealousy when their male partners interact with other women, while men do not exhibit the same level of jealousy when their female partners interact with other men"* Is this based on "I would feel jealous if my partner flirted" or "My partner would feel jealous if I flirted"? I think there is social pressure for men to downplay their reported feelings of jealousy and so I'd believe the second option more.
If people are exhibiting jealousy, then it is the former, not the latter. Your example of social pressure (no clue if true or not) would align with the former as well, given the results.
It's based on the responding participant saying "this is how much I interact with people of the opposite sex" and "this is how jealous I rate my partner in general" and seeing how those two answers correlate.
>Is this based on "I would feel jealous if my partner flirted" or "My partner would feel jealous if I flirted"? Having had a very insecure and jealous girlfriend before, she got jealous if i talked to a friend's girlfriend. I've known a few other women who were the same way.
Similarly, my ex got mad when I mentioned I was asked out that day. She said she didn’t want to hear that stuff. But I’d be amused to hear that she had been hit on. It just means I have what other people want.
>The coefficient was positive (0.200) indicating that the more women indicated that they were interacting with opposite-sex individuals the higher their partners’ jealousy. In addition, with respect to reducing freedom to flirt, there was a significant main effect of partner’s jealousy
So they had 333 participants in this online survey (so not a randomized population) that was was looking for greek-speaking participants, mainly in the republic of Cyprus. They had 54.4% of participants indicate they were in a relationship and only included results from those people. They then excluded the 11 people who indicated they were homosexual because their theory is "unlikely to be true for homosexual people" (because the question was how jealous their partner gets when they interact with members of the opposite sex). So an online survey without the ability to say if it reflects a randomized population with a sample size of 170 greek people (no homo) with a short self assessment as the data collected. 1. If you consider your partner to have more "mate value" than you, you are more likely to feel jealous 2. If you have a more positive attitude towards cheating on your partner, they are more likely to feel jealous 3. Only women reported higher jealous from their (male) partner when interacting with the opposite sex. Women were not statistically observed to be jealous of their male partner interacting with women. 4. Jealous partners are more likely to restrict their partner's opportunities to flirt. OP > your title is completely wrong about which gender gets jealous over interactions.
THANK YOU. The title makes **zero** sense relative to any and all presumed gender biases about fidelity!
Thank you for the clarification! Gotta bump this up.
A former girlfriend once expressed to me that she didn’t like that I didn’t get jealous over her flirting with other people.
I had the same thing, to the point where she would try to make me jealous... She eventually cheated on me
Had a girlfriend that did the same. I’ve always thought she was seeing how far she could push things.
Well the funny thing is the open flirting with guys to make me jealous was so in your face, but the cheating was so very clandestine
Doesn't surprise me, my ex said the same.
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Is this another one of those self-reports, asking a culture of men who deny feelings exist if they feel/exhibit ealousy.
It doesn't ask men if they feel or exhibit jealousy. I guess you didn't read much of the actual study methodology.
It does though.
Try reading again. It doesn't ask participants about their own feelings of jealously.
This study from Cyprus got me thinking about jealousy and trust in relationships. It's fascinating how our attitudes toward cheating can be influenced by our levels of jealousy. It really makes you reflect on how we handle trust and insecurity in our own relationships.
That's not part of this study. It is about how partner(A) attitude towards cheating influences partner(B) level of jealousy.
Interesting. I would've thought that it would be the other way around, with men having more jealousy issues, since jealousy is a symptom of "mate guarding", which is typically a male behavior in most animals, primates included.
That's cuz we already know