Part 1: How often do you have the following thoughts about your "significant other"?
Part 2: How often do you engage in the following behavior?
Part 3: How would you emotionally react to the following situations?
Your total score:
Overall, the higher your score, the more jealous you tend to be.
89 or lower:
You feel secure and trusting in your relationship.
90-109:
You feel fairly secure and trusting in your relationship.
110-132:
You are prone to jealousy, but it doesn't get in the way too often.
133 or higher:
You are feeling pretty jealous. Think about the basis of your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Has your partner given you a reason to be jealous? If so, you may want to work on this with your partner. If not, are there any strategies that you can find
to curb your jealousy?
Whether your total jealousy score
is high or low, you will want to examine your jealousy subscores-this is
a feature most jealousy tests don't have. It turns out that some kinds
of jealousy are better than other kinds of jealousy. Each subscore measures
a particular kind of jealousy (jealous thoughts, jealous behaviors, and
jealous feelings).
Indeed, in romantic relationships,
jealousy isn't always associated with problems. If your Subscore
3 is high, but Subscores 1 and 2 are low, then your jealousy is not a problem,
unless, of course, your feelings of jealousy bother your mate.
The second set of questions is about how people express
their jealousy through their actions. Thus, if your Subscore 2 is high,
then you may be doing things that are going to produce problems between
you and your mate. Generally, higher scores on jealous behaviors were not
associated with love at all.
Subscore 1, regarding jealous thoughts, is also "negatively"
associated with love. That is, studies find that the higher Subscore 1
was for research subjects, the lower was their love score.