Predicting Facebook jealousy in romantic relationships: Further support for attachment style and trust
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Predicting Facebook jealousy in romantic relationships: Further support for attachment style and trust Simran Hira 1 & Manpal Singh Bhogal 1 Accepted: 9 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Previous research has explored the role of individual differences in romantic jealousy. Research suggests that attachment styles predict romantic jealousy, with anxiously attached individuals experiencing high levels of romantic jealousy, whereas avoidant individuals experience less romantic jealousy. The aim of this study was to conceptually replicate these findings by exploring the role of attachment styles/relationship quality and Facebook jealousy. In a sample of participants in heterosexual romantic relationships (n = 124), we found that attachment anxiety was a positive predictor of Facebook jealousy. Furthermore, we find that trust and attachment avoidance negatively predicted Facebook jealousy, in that low trust and low attachment avoidance were associated with higher Facebook jealousy, thus replicating previous research by applying previous research on romantic jealousy to an online context, Facebook jealousy. The findings of this study add to the literature by 1) conceptual replication, and 2) extending previous literature by providing further support of the role of attachment styles and trust in Facebook jealousy. Keywords Facebook jealousy . Attachment style . Trust . Relationship quality
Social networking sites can be used for information seeking, which includes retrieving a romantic partners profile and digitally fact checking information relating to their past and current interactions. Increased exposure to this information has the potential to lead to romantic jealousy. Partners may inspect their current romantic partners past posts, tagged photos, or any interactions to identify cues of infidelity. ‘Facebook intrusion’ refers to the use of Facebook to monitor a partner’s social interactions (Chaulk & Jones, 2011). Romantic jealousy is often conceptualised as an emotion when reacting to a perceived active threat to a relationship (Bevan, 2013). Prolonged use of Facebook or social networking sites in general can increase the likelihood of monitoring of a romantic partners online profile (Darvell, Walsh, & White, 2011). In turn, this can have negative implications for romantic relationships. The aim of this study was to 1) partially, conceptually replicate Marshall, Bejanyan, Di Castro, and Lee (2013) by exploring the role of attachment style and 2) to extend this literature by
* Manpal Singh Bhogal [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, Evolution and Human Behaviour Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK
exploring the role of relationship components in relation to Facebook Jealousy. Those with anxious attachment styles have been found to engage in electronic intrusion towards their partners as a costinflicting mate retention tactic (Bhogal & Howman, 2019; Bhogal, Rhead, & Tudor, 2019). In relation to Facebook jealousy,
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