Nir Dudek, B.A., Graduate Student

Due to similarities in phenomenology and treatment, several authors have proposed that pathological jealousy may be a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Yet, the current research is the first to systematically examine this hypothesis. Three hundred undergraduate students will be tested for jealousy, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and relevant relational variables in a three-wave cross-lagged design based on three-month intervals. Four models are compared regarding the associations between OCD symptoms and pathological jealousy: A no-relationship model (M1), a cross-sectional association model (M2), a jealousy predicts OCD model (M3), and an OCD predicts jealousy model (M4). I predict that the data will fit M2 best, indicating that pathological jealousy is a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

dudek@bgu.ac.il

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