The current state of development of psychological science puts before scientists the task of a comprehensive study of the problem of interpersonal interaction at all levels of its functioning. Due to the fact that the formation and development of personality take place in the space of family environment, the problem of intrafamily interaction is transformed into a psychological phenomenon, the need to study of which is manifested in various branches of Psychology.
Researchers from various fields of scientific knowledge (first of all) of Psychology, Culturology, Medicine, Law and Jurisprudence, pay attention to the study of the definition of the phenomenon of jealousy of marriage partners, which indicates the interdisciplinary nature of the studied phenomenon. At the same time, it is possible to observe a certain methodological uncertainty and superficiality of the accumulated knowledge in the study of the problem of jealousy as a systemic and structural-dynamic phenomenon of personality. It is known that the person's experience of jealousy is a strong emotional feeling that leads to complex conflicts, causes stress and distorts relationships between people globally. Jealousy usually arises in situations of social interaction and can be exacerbated by situations involving loss of prestige, failure, threats to personal dignity, and so on. In addition, various situations and events that disrupt the personality and are caused by the experience of jealousy, indicate that the scope of this mentioned issue goes beyond the traditional boundaries of jealousy (romantic jealousy in relations of marriage partners). Yes, today there is a significant number of situations that cover all areas of personal life, such as jealousy in family and friendships, in the professional sphere and between people in sports, science, art, politics and so on.
The dissertation research examines the definition of jealousy in partners who are officially married. Family relationships can be realized in various forms. Among them, at first glance, threre are negative manifestations of jealousy of marriage partners. Therefore, jealousy as an object of psychological research can serve as a source of coverage of negative trends in family relationships. The developed and tested author's program «Antijealousy» is aimed at the psychological correction of jealousy of marriage partners, which includes the work with self-esteem, aggression, stress, anxiety in the family. The effectiveness of this program is proved, in particular: repeated psychodiagnostics of marriage partners of the experimental group has revealed a significant improvement (reduction of the number of respondents with a high general level of jealousy) (Mx = 19.25 – indicators of the experimental group before the program implementation, Mx = 13.05 – indicators of the experimental group after the implementation of the program), while the results of correlation analysis of the control group show that there have not been any significant changes in it.The scientific novelty of the obtained results is that for the first time: the psychological features of the polydeterminacy of the emotional content of jealousy, namely, the complex of subjective and objective factors, are determined, substantiated and experimentally tested. Among the objective factors, the leading role is played by the gender of the marriage partners, the experience of their married life. Among the subjective factors, the main role of the emotional and valuable spheres of the respondents has been determined, in particular, the feedback between the self-esteem of spouses, family anxiety and levels of aggression and the level of jealousy manifestation in family relationships of marriage partners.
