Jealousy Test

How the Scales are Structured
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See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Willingly accepted it
- Slightly upset
- Upset
- Very upset
- Extremely upset
- Took note of it
- Slightly upset
- Upset
- Very upset
- Extremely upset
- Took note of it
- Slightly upset
- Upset
- Very upset
- Extremely upset
Jealousy Test - Description and methodology of the test
People who want to understand how they react to perceived rivals, divided attention, or changes in closeness may find the jealousy test useful for focused self-reflection. It suits readers curious about emotional intensity in romantic relationships and how broader scenarios bring those reactions into view. As an Am I Jealous Quiz, this questionnaire helps you examine the overall score and pattern of reactions, not separate scores for different settings.
What This Assessment Explores
This questionnaire examines romantic jealousy as a response to threats to closeness, attention, preference, or exclusivity. This romantic jealousy questionnaire presents situations involving a partner's interest in another person or reduced availability, alongside examples involving siblings, friends, coworkers, supervisors, and groups; these contexts elicit reactions without creating separate result domains. The result concerns the intensity and characteristics of jealous feelings in romantic relationships.
The response pattern moves from noticing or accepting an event to increasing levels of upset. This helps you consider how strongly you react to comparison, exclusion, replacement, or divided loyalty; it does not judge whether a relationship is healthy.
The displayed scale is Self-Report Jealousy Scale: 0-100, with result bands:
- Low jealousy (0-33) reflects little reported upset across the situations.
- Moderate jealousy (34-66) reflects an intermediate level of reported reaction.
- High jealousy (67-100) reflects stronger reported reactions overall.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each item presents a situation with five ordered reactions, from taking notice or accepting the event to feeling extremely upset. Contexts span romantic, family, friendship, and work relationships, but they serve as prompts for reactions; the reported construct remains romantic jealousy. This jealousy self-assessment depends on honest self-report.
The result is a summary score mapped to the bands above. The questionnaire does not state how answers become points, so its scoring logic should be read through the reported result rather than reconstructed from wording. The score reflects reactions to these scenarios, not a fixed trait or clinical category.
The scenario format and five-point response structure correspond most closely to Bringle, Roach, Andler, and Evenbeck's (1979) Self-Report Jealousy Scale, a published measure of jealous reactions across interpersonal situations. The online questionnaire shares that scenario-based approach, but it is not presented as a formally standardized administration of the published instrument.
Current circumstances, relationship history, expectations, and response bias can shape answers. The questionnaire is most useful when read alongside triggering situations and wider relationship context.
- Bringle, R. G. (1987). Self-Report Jealousy Scale-Revised. In N. Fredman & R. Sherman (Eds.), Handbook of Measurements for Marriage and Family Therapy (pp. 116-121). New York, NY: Brunner/Mazel. 10.4324/9780203776391
- Bringle, R. G., Roach, S., Andler, C., & Evenbeck, S. (1979). Measuring the intensity of jealous reactions. JSAS: Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 9, 23-24.
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