Objective The article aims to study the present state of jealorsy and the influencing factors of jealousy among the college students. Method Adopt questionnaires to collect data and analyze them with SPSS 10.0 and LISREL8.30. Result (1) The jealousy mentality is universal among the college students. The results of the White habit and relation jealousy scale and the Buunk jealousy scale show that no significant differences lie in the students between different sexes, grades, art and science, from cities and countryside, the single-child families and non-single-child families, and poor families and non-poor families. The result of the Bringle self-report jealousy scale shows that, there are no significant differences among students between grades, art and science, while the differences of the students between sexes, from cities and countryside, the single-child family and non-single-child families, the poor families and non-poor families are significant. (2) The correlations between jealousy mentality and anxiety, positive emotions, interpersonal trust, personal evaluation, parental rearing patterns, social support are very significant. (3) The jealousy mentality is influenced by the personality, parental rearing patterns and social support. Personality has direct effect on the jealousy mentality while the external environment has indirect effect on it through cognition. All the influencing factors have the same relationships with the three jealousies, but the path coefficients are different. |