1.2 PRESENT STUDY AND OBJECTIVES The jealous are quite visible among the people across world whether they live in rural areas and urban areas or are they in working profession or non-working, literate or illiterate or the high income or low income families. It is found in every castes after marriages. After marriage they are malignantly enmeshed in such negative emotion of jealous. As a result, it seems to have affected the marital life adjustment of millions of people by increasing allostatic load, psychological distresses like depression and anxiety related vulnerabilities and suicidal tendencies behavioural and practices amongst the married couple. It has proved one of the factor in ruining the already well established families thereof has affected marital adjustment amongst the couples. It is one of the reasons of divorce, suicides ideation and behavior and marital distress and extreme depression amongst the couples. Generally, it seems that the jealousy happens when a person feels that a relationship that is of prime importance is threatened by someone else outside of the relationship, be it romantic, platonic, friendship, parent-child, and sibling related. It can also occur in the context of competitive situations, such as in workplace or education, therefore seems to have …show more content…
It contains 14 items. Each statement has been evaluated on five and six point scale. The item Number 11 has five point options. Thus, the score ranges from a minimum of 0 to maximum of 69. Higher score indicate greater stability and satisfaction in the relationship. Reliability of scale r = 0.90. It is used because it is a straightforward assessment that can be completely easily and in a short amount of time. It can successfully differentiate between distressed and non-distressed relationship and it will clearly tell that whether a person is well adjusted in their married life or