This study investigated female experiences of physical violence during stalking by a former romantic partner. It aimed to identify factors that were predictive of such stalking violence. Two hundred and twenty female undergraduates who defined themselves as victims of stalking following the dissolution of a romantic relationship completed a short questionnaire. From their responses, 11 predicto...

Changes in technology often affect patterns of social interaction. In the current study, the authors examined how cellular telephones have made it possible for members of romantically involved couples to keep track of each other. The authors surveyed 69 undergraduates on their use of cellular telephones as well as their relationships and their level of sexual jealously. Results find that nearly...

We examined the relationship between second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D), a correlate of prenatal testosterone exposure, and distress at sexual versus emotional infidelity in hypothetical scenarios of relationship threat. As predicted, a significant negative association was found between 2D:4D and greater distress at sexual infidelity for the whole sample (N = 179, females = 101). While this n...

Research has suggested that men are especially bothered by evidence of their partner's sexual infidelity, whereas women are troubled more by evidence of emotional infidelity. One evolutionary account {Buss, Larsen, Westen, & Semmelroth, 1992) argties that this is an innate difference, arising from men's need for paternity certainty and women, s need for male investment in their offspring. We su...

Using data collected from people with at least one brother and one sister, and consistent with an evolutionary perspective, we find that older men and women (a) are more upset by a brother's partner's sexual infidelity than by her emotional infidelity and (b) are more upset by a sister's partner's emotional infidelity than by his sexual infidelity. There were no effects of participant sex or se...

Are we worried about ourselves much? What about our family members? If anything goes wrong, who will take care of our family? At present, medical ethics have been integrated into the medical student curriculum, which is virtually good for Thai society. But unfortunately, some parts of it have been totally ignored, i.e. how to instruct as well as protect the good ethical people in our profession...

Background: Pure delusional jealousy [DJL] is an uncommon disorder and is characterized by unshakable false belief of infidelity, lack of hallucination, thought disorder and mood disturbance, and not associated with alcohol or other drug abuse or any co-morbid illness. Objective: This paper aims to review qualitatively the relevant literature (2000-2015) and present a case of delusional jealous...

The Structural Relationships between Romantic Jealousy , Marital Stability and Satisfaction Mediated by Control Emotional Expression: An Evolutionary Perspective

This correlation study aimed to determine the association between level of self-esteem and romantic jealousy among selected undergraduate university students from Metro Manila, Philippines. The researchers conducted an online survey with use self-administered questionnaires. Purposive non-probability sampling was used identify 40 respondents for this study. gather respondents. Descriptive infer...