Sexual jealousy as a facultative trait: Evidence from the pattern of sex differences in adults from China and the United States |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Optoelectronics Technology, China Jiliang University, 310018 Hangzhou, China;2. Institute of Electronics Engineering & Optoelectronics Technology, Nanjing University of Science and technology, 210094 Nanjing, China;1. Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA;1. St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University), 26 Moskovsky pr., St-Petersburg 190013, Russia;2. Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu 432-8011, Japan;1. Stanford Neuroscience Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;2. Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;1. School of Urban Construction and Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China;2. School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi''an 710129, China |
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| Abstract: | Across two studies, 716 and 308 undergraduate students from the United States and mainland China, respectively, were administered a series of measures on jealousy, emotional responses to partner infidelity, family background, and personality. Across both studies for the U.S. and Chinese samples, a higher proportion of males than females reported more distress to a partner's imagined sexual infidelity than to emotional infidelity, whereas a higher proportion of females than males reported more distress to a partner's emotional infidelity than to sexual infidelity, consistent with theoretical expectations and previous empirical research. However, a much higher proportion of U.S. males and females reported more distress to sexual infidelity than their same-sex Chinese peers, suggesting that the tendency toward sexual jealousy might be facultatively influenced by sexual permissiveness in the general culture. The overall pattern of results is considered in terms of individual and contextual differences in the expression of jealousy, as well as in terms of the emotional and behavioral responses associated with jealousy reactions. |
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