The Relationship between Primary Maladjusted Schema, Personality Traits and Jealousy

The current paper aims at analyzing the relationship between primary maladjusted schema, personality traits and jealousy. This study is a descriptive kind of correlation. The statistical society consists of the entire students of Khomein Islamic Azad University. 384 students have been chosen by the method of (multistage random sampling) and answered to the questionnaires on primary maladjusted schema, five-factor personality and Islamic scale for measuring jealousy. The research data have been analyzed through the method of Pierson`s (correlation coefficient) and (step by step regression). The results show a positive and significant relationship between all the areas of primary maladjusted schema and neurotic sub-scale. They also show a negative and significant relationship of extroversion sub-scale, openness, compatibility and conscientiousness with jealousy. Furthermore, the degree of compatibility, severance and rejection, conscientiousness and impaired limitations can explain the significant part of the variance of jealousy. The research findings indicate the importance of parents’ attention on children’s educational system and the emphasis of the therapists and moral counselors on deep infrastructures of this moral trait.