Marital Jealousy Research Articles

The Effectiveness of Couple Therapy Model from the Perspective of Quran and Islamic Narrations on Family Efficiency and Jealousy of Couples

Aim: The current research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of the couple therapy package of de-jealousy with an Islamic approach on family efficiency and jealousy in incompatible couples. Methods: The research method was experimental and within the framework of a quasi-experimental design of pre-test-post-test type with a control group with follow-up after two months. The statistical population of the present study included all couples in Tehran in 1400 who announced their readiness to participate in the training course for improving marital relations. After conducting the tests, the researcher selected the couples in which the women had a score lower than the average score in Safurai Parisi's Family Efficiency Questionnaire (2008) and a score higher than the average score in the researcher's Marital Jealousy Questionnaire and randomly placed them in the groups. 32 couples were selected from among the statistical population of the study by purposeful sampling and randomly replaced in two experimental and control groups. The participants of the educational group were subjected to the intervention of the couple therapy model from the perspective of the Qur'an and hadiths in 9 sessions of 90 minutes (Jaafari, Fayaz, Pourshahriari, and Abdulahi, 2021) and the control group did not receive any treatment. For data analysis, repeated measurement variance analysis was used with SPSS-25 statistical software. Results: The results of the analysis showed that the average scores of family efficiency in the experimental group compared to the control group increased (F=553.05, P=0.001) and the average scores of jealousy in the experimental group compared to the control group decreased (F=337/ 29, P=0.001). Conclusion: As a result, it can be said that the package of couples therapy to eliminate jealousy with an Islamic approach has been effective on family efficiency and jealousy in incompatible couples.

Factors Contributing to Infidelity in Marriage Within Asian Countries A Systematic Review of literature

Infidelity in the marriage is one of the issues currently we have in this era. We cannot deny it is happening in this twenty-first century. Most common issue related to infidelity is sexual intercourse with the third partner beside the legal wife. Extramarital sex is considered as betray toward the marriage. It can be described like having sex outside the marriage. There are some factors can be connected to the infidelity issue such as marital jealousy, lack of paternal care in children, discomfort in marriage, and dissatisfy in sexual experience. This fault is no longer labels for men only but also to the women. This is a systematic review paper to explore and discover about what are the factors contribute to the extramarital sex. The journals for review are selected from the Asian region, and a total of 10 journals from different countries including China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Vietnam.

ПСИХОЛОГІЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПРОЯВУ РЕВНОЩІВ ЯК ФЕНОМЕНУ ПОДРУЖНЬОГО ЖИТТЯ У СТУДЕНТСЬКИХ СІМ’ЯХ


 
 
 
 Jealousy is one of the strongest, destructive and painful emotions. They are most often accompanied by any personal relationship between a person, whether intimate, business or family. Thus, jealousy is one of those aspects of human life that does not change over time. Relationships in which jealousy harms both personality and the psychological climate of society.The article actualizes the problem of studying the psychology of family and marital revenge. The results of empirical research of psychological peculiarities of the ideas of marital jealousy of students of higher educational institutions are presented. Almost every couple, sooner or later, regardless of the length of the relationship, faces the jealousy of the partner or the thought of a possible betrayal. The study analyzed what constitutes a problem of jealousy, how jealousy manifests itself in family relationships and what consequences can lead to it.
 
 
 

Distant bedfellows: Shakespearean struggles of intimacy in Winterson’s The Gap of Time

ABSTRACTThis essay examines the ways in which Winterson’s The Gap of Time adapts The Winter’s Tale to represent the difficulties of attaining intimacy. Winterson’s novel updates the play’s treatment of marital jealousy to expose contemporary and timeless obstacles to intimacy. Shakespeare’s Leontes avoids emotional closeness and relies on the mediation of others to sustain his relationships. Winterson acknowledges that intimacy can be intimidating, but she cautions against anything that buffers the self from the other. Characters find their desire for connection frustrated by layers of mediation, especially technological ones. However, Winterson privileges literature (including Shakespeare) as a bridge between selves that transcends limitations of other mediating forces. Thus The Gap of Time contributes to Winterson’s critiques of contemporary desensitization while positioning her novels as remedies. By analyzing the dialogue between the two texts, I identify how each author revises relationships, and I explore the connection between intimacy and adaptation.

Late Medieval “Counseling”: Jean Gerson (1363-1419) as a Family Pastor

The writings of the most influential religious thinker and theologian of the fifteenth century, Jean Gerson (1363-1419), represent a rich mine for the study of medieval mentality, religious practice, and the relationship between parishioners and pastor. Above all, the combination of traditional and innovative attitudes makes his views on family life, conjugal responsibilities, marital jealousy, spousal abuse, and the education of children interesting to a modern audience. His opinions are far from typical for the fifteenth century, and many of his ideas represent exceptional rather than mainstream tendencies.

Euripides' Medea: The Stranger in the House

In his 1978 film A Dream of Passion, the director Jules Dessin revisits the tragedy of Medea. The film juxtaposes and contrasts theater and cinema, ancient and modern, Greek and American, in its exploration of an extended encounter between the characters played by Melina Mercouri a Greek actress performing Euripides' Medea in Athens and Ellen Burstyn an American corporate wife and fundamentalist Christian, imprisoned for having murdered her children, because her husband was having an affair with a Greek woman.1 What remains constant, in the confrontation of the ancient and the contemporary narratives, is the horror of and fascination with a woman who would murder her own children.2 And, further, who would do so out of marital jealousy. This unspeakable crime seems to a modern audience whether of the Dessin film or of the well-received 1982 performance of Robinson Jeffers' translation by Zoe Caldwell and Dame Judith Anderson to be the very essence of Medea's myth, the heart of the legend. It would not have seemed so to Euripides' audience. For the killing of the children appears to have been a Euripidean innovation, explicitly counter to existing versions of Medea's tale. This paper will consider variant versions and aspects of Medea's legend which Euripides does not incorporate into his play; the ways in which that material, nevertheless, is reflected in Euripides' shaping of the myth both narratively and rhetorically; and the ways in which the fifth-century Athenian cultural context may have influenced that shape quite specifically.

A Sociological Journey into Sexuality

The Freudian, Marxian, and sociobiological explanations of sexuality are not well designed for answering questions concerning differences among societies or groups in their sexual lifestyles. A macro-level, societal explanation of sexuality is needed to answer such questions. Such a theory is lacking in sociology but is developed in this paper. Sexuality is defined as a societal product whose importance lies more in its physical pleasure and selfdisclosure aspects than in its reproductive potential. Those qualities are universally valued because they are the building blocks of social relationships. This paper proposes that sexuality is universally linked to the social structure in three specific areas: (a) marital jealousy, (b) gender role power, and (c) beliefs about normality. Variations and interrelations of these three linkages are explained by the logical structure of this sociological theory. Evidence concerning the theory is explored by examining the Standard Cross Cultural Sample, National Opinion Research Center surveys, and individual research on other societies. The sociological explanation presented here applies to both heterosexual and homosexual relationships and to both industrial and nonindustrial societies. A number of specific, interrelated propositions that explain societal variations within the three universal linkage areas are explored. The logical structure of the theory is developed as the context of those propositions. The paper also treats the relevance of this theory for the applied professions dealing with sexuality.

DSM-III: problems in diagnosing partial forms of multiple personality disorder: discussion paper.

Of all the defence mechanisms, only one — Dissociation — is treated as a separate diagnostic category in the third edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-III) (American Psychiatric Association 1980). Delusional marital jealousy, for instance, could be classified as one of the projective disorders, but this is not done. A group of disorders based on dissociation should be easily defined and organized, in comparison with the relatively bewildering array of psychotic disturbances. Yet DSM-III does not provide a conceptually coherent set of dissociative diagnoses. This problem in DSM-III is best illustrated by partial forms of multiple personality disorder (MPD) which at present receive the unsatisfactory diagnosis of atypical dissociative disorder. First, the organization of other sections of DSM-III will be discussed.

Perceived Threats and Marital Jealousy

Based upon the principles of structural exchange theory, a number of hypotheses concerning marital jealousy are tested using questionnaire responses from 220 married individuals. Jealousy is measured by asking subjects to rate how they would feel about their mates' behavior in eight hypothetical situations believed to produce jealousy. Results indicate that gender-role orientation and low marital alternatives are related to total jealousy for both males and females and that negative self-esteem is related to it for females. Significantly, marital adjustment, rewardingness, and trust are not related to jealousy. While the variables examined explain only a modest proportion of the variance in jealousy, structural exchange theory shows promise as a general theoretical approach to the topic.

A behavioral-systems approach to the treatment of marital jealousy

This paper describes a model of jealousy as an interactional rather than an individual problem and illustrates how faulty attempts to correct jealousy actually exacerbate and maintain the problem. The model integrates a systems view of molar relationship structures and sequences with a behavioral view of respondent and operant components of jealousy. The three case histories that are presented combine strategic approaches, including therapeutic directives and reframing with behavioral strategies such as cognitive restructuring, negotiation and behavioral rehearsal. How the therapist issues directives, fosters compliance, and handles the values dimension of jealousy are discussed as important considerations in the treatment of jealousy.

Jealousy: Systematic, Problem‐Solving Therapy With Couples

Literature on the treatment of marital jealousy has focused on individual and interpersonal awareness/insight and the use of communication-negotiation skills. This paper proposes an alternative viewpoint applying the problem-solving approaches of Erikson, Haley, Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch to the alteration of jealous systems. Through a detailed case study, the author describes the concept of the therapeutic triangle and the use of paradox and symptom transfer as potential contributions in the treatment of jealousy. Finally, the author discusses briefly a possible factor leading to the success of the systematic, problem-solving modality: serious playfulness.