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• TITLE: Romantic Jealousy and Love Infidelity Correlations

  AUTHORS: Thiago de Almeida, Adriano Schlösser

  KEYWORDS: Jealousy, Infidelity, Love, Romantic Relationships

  JOURNAL NAME: Current Urban Studies, Vol.2 No.3, September 18, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Many researchers have studied the factors that can contribute to a loving relationship remaining stable and having a good quality for both partners. Two of the most worrying concerns that people have in regard to love relationships are the jealousy and infidelity. The purpose of this study was to verify whether there is relationship between these two phenomena. In this study, 45 heterosexual couples with an average age of 24.6 years participated, who were recruited through an ad placed on the site of a public university located in the city of Sao Paulo. To assess the degrees of jealousy of the participants, “Escala de ciúme romantico—ECR” was used. To evaluate the infidelity of the participants, the “Inventário de comportamentos relacionados à infidelidade” created specifically for this work was used. The results indicated that: 1) though it was so low, the jealousy is an agent of self-fulfilling prophecy for infidelity (r = 0.25, 90 df, p