Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, language: English, abstract: In the present research study an attempt was made to understand the psychology of professional jealousy among the teachers. Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, such as a relationship, friendship, or love. Research has identified a number of factors associated with jealousy. Although both women and men experience jealousy, there are differences in the ways they experience and react to it. Main objectives of the study were 1)To find out the teachers who have professional Jealousy.2)To find out the situations that generates the professional Jealousy. 3) To find out the causes of Jealousy. 4) To enlist the Symptoms of Jealous behavior of colleague. Covert Participant observation method was used for the study. Jealousy was found to be more in the teachers who are ambitious, struggling high to achieve worthy position. Having average or below average level academic performance. Main causes of jealousy were found in the organization: When someone they hate succeeded, managed to get something and they thought that he didn't deserve it, achieved something that that had always wanted to achieve but didn't manage to get it. Lack of self confidence, Poor Self Concept, Fear Insecurity are the possible root causes for jealousy. The symptoms that indicates that colleague is jealous of you are: they avoid you, they spread rumours about you, they avoid making eye contact with you, not acknowledging your presence, not invited to social events.They don't ever include you in their office humours Envy is a universal trait. However, if left unchecked in the workplace, it leads to problems..