Page No, , 227-237
Ravinder Kumar and Rameshbabu Tamarana
Central University of Karnataka
Vishal Sharma
Jagannath University, Bahadurgarh
The current study is designed to understand the association between senility towards
justice and conflicts among romantic partners. Justice sensitivity refers to an individual’s
acute perception of fairness and justice in interpersonal interactions. The data was
collected from 310 romantic partners using purposive sampling. Participant were
assessed through the Justice sensitivity short scale and romantic partner conflict scale
(RPCS). Responses were analysed through Pearson correlation and multiple regression
analyses. The results suggest that the victim’s sensitivity is positively related to
interactional reactivity and dominance, suggesting that if any relationship tends to
heighten victim sensitivity, it proportionately heightens the conflicts among the partners.
These people become volatile and try to dominate arguments. Beneficiary sensitivity,
on the other hand, showed significant positive relationships with avoidance, interactional
reactivity, dominance and submission. These results suggest that people’s guilt of
benefits gained from injustices may also lead to snares of interpersonal conflicts. On
the other hand, perpetrator sensitivity was reported to have a weak correlation with
interactional reactivity and dominances but with a strong positive relationship to
separation, indicating forces to avoid situations of being perceived as injustice. Observer
sensitivity was tested and has to have little/weak effects or significant relationships
with Partner conflicts and vice versa, except that in the romantic conflicts continuum,
these are inbuilt within the perpetual disagreements in any romantic relationship. The
results advocate, however, for a more measured understanding of the justice sensitivity
construct in intimate relationships and caveats around communication strategies to
manage relational tensions.