The effect of causal attribution on social-comparison jealousy

Abstract

Conducted a pilot study and 2 experimental studies on the effects of internality, stability, and direction of cause on social-comparison jealousy. Ss were 313 female undergraduate students. A pilot study led to the categorization of causes attributed in jealousy-provoking situations in terms of 3 dimensions: internality, stability, and direction of cause. In Exp 1, 256 Ss assessed their feelings of jealousy in 2 hypothetical jealousy-provoking situations, in which the dimensions of cause were manipulated. In Exp 2, 57 Ss assessed their locus of control and strength of jealousy in the 2 situations. (English abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)