TY - JOUR AU - Mota Palma, Jaqueline AU - González-Arratia López-Fuentes, Norma Ivonne AU - Valdez Medina, José Luis AU - González Escobar, Sergio AU - Hernández Vergara, Gabriela PY - 2016/06/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Construction and Statistical Analysis of the Multidimensional Inventory of Romantic Jealousy: Preliminary Study JF - Actualidades en Psicología JA - AP VL - 30 IS - 120 SE - Articles DO - 10.15517/ap.v30i120.18977 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/actualidades/article/view/18977 SP - 31-45 AB - Aiming to construct and validate a test to measure jealousy, the Multidimensional Inventory of Romantic Jealousy (MIRJ)  was developed from three axes: 1) the notion of jealousy, 2) the situations that generate it and 3) cognitive, affective and behavioral responses involved. The MIRJ consists of five Likert scales with five response options each. The inventory was validated by expert judgment on the content validity and exploratory factor analysis to construct the validity of each scale, showing higher reliability coefficients (α > .85). MIRJ  has a fairly clear structure with independent dimensions that measure with reasonable accuracy the three axes. In Conclusion, romantic jealousy is a multidimensional construct with affective, cognitive and behavioral responses, triggered from a situation that represents the possible loss of a partner. ER -