Jealousy and Gender

This Progress Report submitted by Tiffin and Sarah [e-mail:shooksa@muohio.edu] on 4/25/01.

In the past 4 weeks we have gone to several main campus halls to collect data, as well as on Western. We have collevted our goal of 100 surveys and entered the data into Excel spreadsheets, and analyzed the data. The following is a summary of our results thus far.

Our Question 1-5
1.) Thinking or hearing about your partner’s former lover(s) or romantic evolvement(s) makes you jealous
2.) At parties you are aware of every move or gesture your partner makes
3.) It would be a major crisis if you discovered that your partner had casual sexual relations with someone else
4.) It would be a major crisis if you discovered that your partner had a continuing emotionally bonded friendship (that did not involve sexual relations) with someone else.
5.) You are often jealous of your partner’s friends, even if you know that your partner is not sexually involved with them.

Main Campus Female Averages for Questions 1-5:
3.152174 3.23913 *1.434783 *3.130435 3.695652
Main Campus Males Averages for Questions 1-5:
3.0625 3.3125 1.5625 3.4375 3.6875

Western Females Averages for Questions 1-5:
~Least Jealous *Most Jealous
*2.865385 *3.038462 ~2.153846 3.153846 *3.153846
Western Males Averages for Questions 1-5:
~3.176471 ~3.470588 2.029412 ~3.970588 ~4.147059

# of sexual partners:
Females (all) = 1.755102041
Males (all) = 3
Main Campus Females = 1.47826087
Main Campus Males = 3.3125
Western Females = 2.576923077
Western Males = 2.882352941

Overall dating status:15 dc 35 dm 49 s
Western Dating Status: (sixty percent of sample)13 dc 20 dm 27 s
Main Campus Dating Status: (forty percent of sample) 2 dc 15 dm 22 s

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