Communication Strategies to Jealousy
Abstract
The strategies to communicate on matters related to jealousy can be described in two categories. In the first category, the factors involved in trying to communicate with jealous issues are discussed. In the second category, a confirmatory type is explored to verify that these factors are relevant as pertains to the matter.
Jealousy is the act of having a desire for someone else’s property or character, which often leads to strife. A strategy needs to be formed from reacting to these cases. Jealousy can occur in many forms across all sects of society ranging in age, gender, and even more categories. Jealousy among spouses or those in a romantic relationship is very common and is often highlighted when formulating these strategies. Jealousy among spouses is majorly discussed as they are in a committed relationship and have to deal with the issues today. There are other forms of jealousy also that are discussed.
The paper discusses the factors relevant to formulating strategies to deal with communication that involves jealousy. The report also discusses the category of verification of these factors. It is also highlighted in the paper the particular elements in various types. A conclusion is also discussed, that summarizes the specific strategies as that would be in use. A list of references is also attached.
Literature Review
There are categories of jealousy in relationships that can be then classified into four. They include negative and positive, indirect and direct, nonverbal versus verbal, and antagonist and partner. In identifying the factors present in controlling jealousy, there are then 12 categories of these factors. In the verifying tenets, there are 11 categories (Rachel, 2012).
In these 11 categories, there are two categories. In the first, the strategies are relational. They include adverse influence action, which is physical actions that have physical outbursts. Another mannerism is the cohesive dialogue, which is a direct statement of the reaction in jealousy to the other party. The honest discussion, which may include shouting or utterances of contempt to the other partner, refusal also defined as not talking with the other party and refusing to hold jealous feelings toward another person.
Extreme presenting, which is a physical expression, can also happen to the other partner. Five different responses are only specific to the partner who express jealousy and does not involve the other partner’s reactions. They include opposite mannerisms, which are not in line with how the partner is feeling. They are not harmful but positive and include good deeds and talks to the partner, although they do not mean to perform the right act. They thus do this to try and repay for the jealous feelings they had conceived.
There are also constricting mannerisms, which are deeds or talks to limit the partner’s lifestyle and may include continually checking up on them and following them around. They can even be expressed in words to try and instruct them to limit themselves in specific ways. There are also deceptive methods that are often said to make the other partner behave in a manner desirable to the expressing partner or make them feel that they should not have done what they did or lower their self-esteem for their benefit (Guerrero 2011).
Trying to limit the other partner in public is also a jealous act to restrict them to themselves. This might be by instantly grabbing the partner’s arm when there is a partner who seems a threat to the acting partner. Also, shouting amid the danger is a common practice of jealousy. Lowering risks is also a common practice of jealousy among the interim partners. These acts of falling on the threats include shame these threatening individuals and even threatening them physically. These acts might be among the three parties involved.
Relationship sabotage is also another way the jealous partners engage in trying to make their jealousy prominent. This includes ending the relationship or expressing to end the relationship. This might be in conversation with the partner or even in actions to end the relationship.
Jealous people might express the feelings of jealousy either in communication or physically. The responses made by the jealous partner are specific as per the terms of the relationship. Spouses in marriage show fewer signs of avoidance of jealous expressions. They instead offer jealous thoughts outwardly with a quick aim o solving the contempt in jealousy. Individuals in short term relationships show many faces of non-avoidance of jealous expressions. They often express them, and most of these relationships are subject to ending, and most of them frequently do. Married couples, according to statistics, prefer communicating almost immediately their discontent in times of jealousy in the times they occur (Rauscher, Emily 2016).
Men and women also according to statistics, express themselves specifically in times of jealousy. Men prefer engaging with the threats to the relationship between them and the danger only or among the three parties. Women prefer communicating verbally, according to statistics often, then acting amid the threat. In most relationships, women were found to express themselves through dialogue with the partner to resolve the jealous issue.
In summary, men were linked with deceptive acts, engaging with threats, trying to show possessiveness, and physical engagements. Women were associated with dialogues and in the opposite manner of expression, physical detachment in every instance, deceptive acts, threats to end the relationship, and physical actions. Also, the attachment in the relationship determines the manner of acting (Little 2018).
Also, there has emerged another reactionary act to jealousy among relationships: reactionary jealousy inducements. This act is under deceptive acts. Reactionary jealousy inducements include making the partner feel guilty or even lying to the partner to induce them to follow the partner’s will with no jealousy-related characteristics (Yoshimura, Trost 2018).
In the past, the acts of detachment were categorized under one category of avoidance. In the present times, there are two categories of the detachment act. In the first category, there is a refusal by the partner. In the second category, there is quietness by the partner. This is the difference between the past methods of measurement of actions of jealousy with the present ones.
There are four junior sections of the second-order factor structure. They include harmful dialog, helpful communication detachment communication, and communication with rivals.
Three of the special sections, helpful communication, harmful communication, and detachment communication, occur in partner to partner relations instead of the other forms of jealousy communications under rival-based touch (Rachel Fredericks 2012).
Conclusion
The practical applications of the study of the reactions in jealousy to a partner are vast, with differences. For example, experts who want to study various variations in helpful responses as opposed to the harmful reactions can now explore these tenets with ease.
Scholars can study the root causes of these reactions. They can also check the methods of dealing with various forms of dealing with harmful communication. In research instances, some experts want to add an individual feeling factor to the factors of the jealousy reactions as factors also. This helps separate each personal response as some reactions are general and have to be performed as such, but when done with a specific emotion, they become differentiated. The emotions understudy, in this case, are harmful. The extent to which negative emotions were used in a given situation is measured.
There also exist limitations to the study of jealous emotions and their reactions. An end of this study is the type of population being tested. When testing college students on the subject of jealousy, it was discovered that college students are hasty in expressing jealousy that often led to many such relationships. On the other hand, married spouses dealt with jealousy issues more calmly and systematically than college students.
Relational research ranks jealousy in spouses and other individuals in relationships as a critical subject. Such an issue is classified as a very reoccurring issue in relationships and is very researched upon. The present studies are an example of how the progress of the survey of jealousy has become prominent.
References
Fredericks, R. (2012). Troubling others and Tormenting Ourselves. Nature and Moral Significance of Jealousy.
Laura Guerrero, A. H. (2011). The Communicative Responses to Jealousy Scale: revision, Empirical Validation, and Associations with Relational Satisfaction.
Little, L. E. (2018). Review, Envy, and Jealousy: A Study of Separation of Powers and Judicial.
Rauscher, E. (2016). Family communication Patterns and Communicative Responses to Jealousy: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia.
Stephen Yoshimura, M. T. (2005). Romantic jealousy: Emotions and Communicative Responses.