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Facebook and jealousy

发布时间:2017-04-02
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Introduction to Psychology

Individual Project

What causes increased jealousy amongst couples in romantic relationships on Facebook?

Facebook has become a phenomenon for the social networking set. It is an incredible tool for the building and maintaining of h3 relationships. Many people, especially university students, spends a major proportion of their waking time on many social networking sites such as Facebook. With the rise of modern technology, these people are willing to sacrifice a huge part of their privacy when they post their feelings, ideas and interest online.  In the past, flirty gestures of interest and signals of subtle disregard can be easily controlled and partners in close relationships were unaware of the conversations that take place within one's social circle. Facebook have created a fundamental shift in the society being open with this lack of privacy in the posting of intimate information online. Consequently, Facebook have been blamed for creating jealousy and suspicion in romantic relationships. Jealousy is the fear of loss, specifically fear of loss of the love or affection of another, where the affection lost is, or at least thought to be gained by a third party. (Walker, 1989). Is this jealousy caused due entirely to Facebook or is it just in someone's nature to act jealous?

Firstly, the easy accessibility of information concerning the interactions of significant others make Facebook a breeding ground for relationship jealousy. Facebook monitoring can lead to insecure partners to information that may otherwise have been kept private and confidential. Some Facebook posts may tend to be ambiguous and without context thus spurring misunderstandings. Facebook may expose the individual to potentially jealousy-provoking information such as posts, "tagged pictures" and "likes" that may appear frequently on the status notification. In fact, one study identified four main categories that may evoke a sense of jealousy in couples: when one's partner shows interest in another person and vice versa, when one communicates or interacts with prior relational partners and in ambiguous scenes involving the partner. (Sheets VL, 1997) .The room for assumption and conjecture is infinite online, as compared when in person.This could result in an increased surveillance and addiction to a partner's Facebook page leading to greater exposure to the jealous-provoking information. Furthermore, people can view your profile anonymously and one does not necessarily have to become a member to view your friends list or wall. Hence, the easy accessibility of information to Facebook gives rise to jealousy.

Secondly, studies have shown that the more time one spends on Facebook, the more jealous they were. The time spent on Facebook contrinute to Facebook specific jealousy that goes beyond the effects of personal and relational factors. In one of the studies,  experimenters controlled for factors of trust, self-esteem and relationship commitment, but the time one spends on Facebook was still a significant predictor of the experience of jealousy. (Wells, 2010)As mentioned above, the greater exposure to jealous-provoking information  causes increased surveillance of the person's profile, thus increasing the time one soends on Facebbok.It was found that although women spend more time on Facebook as compared to men, women are not more jealous than men. (Muise, 2009). Women and men responds differently to jealousy.The sources analyzed did not state how they measured jealousy. Future studies could include a range of behaviors the participants, such as young adolescents; engage in when they feel jealous by what they see on Facebook. There were no clear method in which the experimenters measured jealousy in each of the sources analysed.

However, jealousy could be more of a nature rather than a nurture concept. Some people are more prone to jealousy as compared to others. Jealousy can also be classified into different categories: emotional jealousy or trait jealousy. (Muise, 2009) An individual level of jealousy is negatively correlated with levels of trust and self-esteem. Someone will lower self-esteem and lower levels of trust tend to experience higher and more intense levels of jealousy. Future study could involve studying the personality type of the individual. Certain personalities tend to have a tougher time trusting significant others and technology is simply an enabler of his/ her personality. There is a possibility that the root of jealousy lies more in the personality of an individual rather than on technology.

Studies conducted till date were mainly amongst university students. Future studies can be conducted on adults outside the university context. Adult relationships tend to have developed many years before Facebook became popular and it is highle debatable that the older generations are less well equipped to deal with the challenges that Facebook may pose. Also, the older generation have a longer pasts and possibly more friends and partners with whom they can connect to, thus exposing their partners to greater potential for jealousy.

Bibliography

Muise, A.,Christofides, E.& Desmarais, S. More information than You Ever Wanted: Does Facebook bring out the Green- Eyed Monster of Jealousy?, CyberPsychology & Behaviour, 2009, 12(4),pp.441-444

Sheets VL,Fredendall LL,Claypool HM. Jealousy evocation, partner reassurance, and relationship stability: an exploration of the potential benefits of jealousy. Evolution& Human Behaviour 1997, vol. 18, pp.387-402

Walker, Arthur F. The Problem of the Weakness of Will. Nous,1989, 23(5),pp. 653-676

Wells, Veronica. How Facebook Breed Jealousy. Times.com, February 2010

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