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Gemmer, Stephanie J. "Exploring Infidelity: Developing the GEM RIM (Gemmer's Risk of Infidelity Measure)." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1336503497.
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Dowd, Megan M. "The Secrets of Infidelity." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1338902906.
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Haley, Tanja. "Counsellor values and client infidelity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34962.pdf.
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Goldie, Miranda Mae. "Infidelity and Forgiveness: Therapists' Views on Reconciliation and Restoration of Trust Following Disclosure of Infidelity." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3834.
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Infidelity is one of the most prevalent presenting problems in relational therapy. There are many conceptualizations of the healing process following infidelity and suggested interventions and treatment plans. Forgiveness is an essential part of relationship growth and healing interpersonal hurts. Reconciliation is relationship repair that can accompany forgiveness. In addition, restoring trust is essential to reconciliation. Means to accomplish rebuilding trust must be established. This study seeks to expand understanding of the treatment of infidelity specifically on the topics of forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration of trust through disclosure. The Forgiveness vs. Reconciliation and Trust Scale (FvRTS) was developed as a measure for therapists' views and perception concerning these three topics. Through statistical analysis of the FvRTS, which was administered to relational therapists, this study investigates the views and opinions held by therapists concerning the relationship between reconciliation and forgiveness and the role of disclosure, both initial and ongoing, in restoring trust following infidelity. Therapists conveyed the view that reconciliation is not required for forgiveness. However, in their practice they encourage reconciliation following an affair. Results indicated that therapists perceive initial disclosure as having immediate negative impacts. But overall, therapists expressed a strong view that both initial and ongoing disclosure have a positive long term impact on relational healing.
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Leckie, Barbara. "Infidelity, the novel, and the law." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74644.
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This thesis examines the sociolegal context of the representation of infidelity in the Anglo-American novel. It locates the first serious Anglo-American treatment of infidelity in the novels of Henry James and Ford Madox Ford; and it situates these writers for the first time in their immediate legal context. The dominant mode through which infidelity was discursively defined during this period was simultaneously legal and sensational: the publication of "Divorce Court" trials in the daily newspapers. The implication of this context for the novel is twofold. The focus on narration from the perspective of the betrayed party prompts a local questioning of knowledge (of knowing one's spouse), and a more general questioning of the epistemoloigcal premises of the realist novel itself. The novels considered here make clear the limitations of a legal discourse committed to a disinterested record of "what happened." In the process, they illustrate several of the narrative innovations most distinctive to the modernist novel. Secondly, what will be called an "aesthetics of suspicion" and "domestic surveillance" distinguishes James's and Ford's novels from the central critical tradition which reads the representation of infidelity as subversive of social norms. Instead, these novels reinforce, thematically and formally, the legal policing of infidelity. Doubt of both conjugal and narrative fidelity, then, becomes the means through which the legal policing of infidelity in the divorce court is covertly extended in the novel.
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Siu, Leung Kit-sum Mary, and 蕭梁潔心. "Infidelity in marriages: implications on counselling." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247532.
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Siu, Leung Kit-sum Mary. "Infidelity in marriages : implications on counselling /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12322465.
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Tang, Yabin. "DEFINING INFIDELITY AND IDENTIFYING OFFENDING SPOUSES." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/71.
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Research on infidelity has suffered from inconsistency in how infidelity has been operationalized across studies. This study was designed to advance methodological considerations for defining infidelity and identifying offending spouses. A subjective definition of infidelity was obtained from each respondent via both closed- and open-ended items. The open-ended responses were applied to explore the definition of infidelity. Additionally, an indirect questioning method was adopted to identify offending spouses according to their own subjective definitions of cheating and test the effectiveness of this approach relative to direct questioning for identifying offending spouses. Furthermore, gender differences in acknowledging infidelity through both direct and indirect approaches in general as well as across the four self-defined categorical infidelity were examined. A community sample of 465 married or divorced individuals anonymously completed the survey via MTurk. Results showed two defining characteristics of infidelity that cut across modes of infidelity (sexual, emotional, computer-mediated, and solitary) were that infidelity occurs outside the relationship and without consent. The definition of infidelity of infidelity provided in response to an open-ended inquiry tended to be shorter among offending spouses—especially male offending spouses—than among non-offending spouses. More offending spouses were found via the indirect (42.9%) approach than the direct approach (12.7%), and more men than women acknowledged engaging in infidelity behaviors according to both the direct (16.6% vs. 9.1%) and indirect (48.2% vs. 38.0%) approaches. That said, gender-based statistical differences in propensity to commit self-defined infidelity were only found in sexual and computer-mediated forms of infidelity; propensity to commit self-defined emotional and solitary infidelity did not statistically differ between men and women; in all cases, however, gender differences were small. Results suggested that the indirect approach is better than direct questioning for identifying infidelity behaviors; the indirect approach elicited less social desirability bias. Implications for research and clinical practice are provided.
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Adams, Amber Nicole. "Social Networking Sites and Online Infidelity." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3379.
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Biological factors, attachment styles, socioeconomic status, and religion are among some of the variables researched as casual factors of infidelity. However, limited research is available for infidelity originating online. This study aimed to investigate causal factors for engaging in online infidelity via social networking site use. A cognitive behavioral perspective guided the research. Review of literature on offline infidelity, online behavior, and Davis' work on generalized problematic internet use identified the variables relationship satisfaction, impulsivity, permissive sexual values, and the intensity of social networking site use for exploration. Research questions addressed any contribution these four variables may have to engaging in online infidelity. A cross-sectional online survey including the Relationship Assessment Scale, Barrett Impulsivity Scale, Brief Sexual Attitudes Scale, and Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire targeting individuals 21 years of age and older, who reside in the United States, as well as, the U.S. Virgin Islands was available to the public. 136 respondents completed the survey. The study identified relationship satisfaction, rather than relationship dissatisfaction, as the primary predictor of engaging in online infidelity. Additionally, a stronger presence of permissive sexual values was associated with an increase in relationship satisfaction. Those attempting to engage in online infidelity, a group not previously researched, is predicted by impulsivity. The findings from this study can be used by individuals and professionals alike for improving individualized therapeutic practice. The research findings indicate future research in respect to online infidelity, social networking site use, and the population of individuals that attempt to engage in infidelity would be beneficial.
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Kawar, Codina. "Parental Infidelity and Relational Ethics: A Dyadic Examination." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574345666496227.
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Hunniecutt, Jeni R. "Infidelity and Identity: Cheating, Children, and the Church." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1165.
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When children grow up in a Christian home they learn fidelity is essential in a relationship. The inconsistency of biblical messages and parental infidelity is identity altering for children. In this study I use autoethnography to explore how my parents’ infidelity collided with religious teachings to shape my identity and influence my interpersonal relationships. I also use narrative interviewing to identity the ways my siblings were affected by the same experience and how such discrepancies in our home influenced their identities. The theory of narrative inheritance (Goodall, 2005) serves to be a source of empowerment as well as a contributing factor to definitions of infidelity. Familial roles are illuminated as I explore how my siblings and I negotiated cognitive dissonance that resulted from the conflicting narratives of Christianity and parental infidelity.
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Williams, Marcus Andrew. "The construction of infidelity on American television talk shows /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsw7211.pdf.
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Hergert, Jane [Verfasser]. "Personality, situation, and infidelity in romantic relationships / Jane Hergert." Hagen : Fernuniversität Hagen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/111489026X/34.
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Eickholt, Molly S. "FACE THREAT, FACE SUPPORT, AND ADVICE EFFECTIVENESS FOLLOWING INFIDELITY." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/15.
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This study examined advice interactions following infidelity. Participants (N = 213) completed a survey concerning an instance on infidelity and a subsequent advice interaction. Injured party perceptions of advice interactions were measured by examining advice messages, perceived face threat, and perceived face support, in addition to perceived effectiveness of the advice message. Results from this study showed no significant differences in perceived face threat, perceived face support, or advice effectiveness between different advice messages. Results also indicated both positive and negative face threat as negative predictors of advice effectiveness. While negative face support was a positive predictor of advice effectiveness, positive face support was a negative predictor. When controlling for relational closeness, negative face support was the only significant predictor of advice effectiveness.
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OLIVEIRA, MARIA ENGEL DE. "ORKUT: THE IMPACT OF REALITY OF THE VIRTUAL INFIDELITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9888@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>Traição, infidelidade e adultério são temas que geram até
hoje diversas
reações e opiniões nas pessoas. Em diferentes momentos
históricos e culturais
podemos dizer que o ser humano vivenciou as três situações
de formas diversas.
Por ora foram socialmente aceitos, e em outros momentos,
punidos e vistos como
pecado. Mas existe um consenso com relação à reação frente
à descoberta de uma
traição, que é o fato de ser geradora de muito sofrimento,
decepção e de um
sentimento de condenação por parte de quem a descobre. Com
o advento da
Internet, surgem os relacionamentos virtuais e, por
conseguinte, novas facetas
começam a ser reveladas com relação à infidelidade. A
comunidade virtual Orkut
serviu de pano de fundo para este trabalho, pois lá existe
uma liberdade de acesso
por parte dos seus membros às informações pessoais, fotos
e mensagens que são
trocadas. A possibilidade de visualização de conteúdos que
possam denunciar a
infidelidade ou a traição por parte de alguém é muito
grande. Desta maneira, o
presente trabalho teve como objetivo principal investigar
os principais
sentimentos e opiniões dos usuários do Orkut a respeito da
infidelidade online.
Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa com dez sujeitos,
usuários do Orkut,
através de entrevistas online. Quinze depoimentos da
comunidade Eu descobri
pelo Orkut também foram analisados. Os resultados
revelaram principalmente
que a troca de mensagens mais ardentes, carinhosas ou
ilícitas pelo Orkut é
considerada como traição pelos sujeitos, assim como a
visualização de fotos de
outros homens e mulheres.<br>Betrayal, infidelity and adultery are subjects that cause
several reactions
and opinions on people, until today. In different
historical and cultural moments,
we can say that the human being lived those situations
differently. For the time
being, they were socially accepted, and in other moments,
punished and seen as
sins. But there is a consensus in relation to the reaction
of people facing the
discovery of a betrayal, which causes a lot of pain,
deception and a feeling of
censure from those who find it out. With the happening of
Internet, virtual
relationships emerge, therefore, new strategies start
being revealed in relation of
infidelity. The virtual community Orkut, performed as a
background for this
project, because there is a freedom of access, on the
behalf of the users, to
personal information, pictures and messages which are
swapped. The possibility
to visualize the contents that may denounce the infidelity
or betrayal of someone
is huge. Thereby, this project had as its main goal, to
investigate the main feelings
and opinions from users of Orkut, about infidelity online.
A quality research was
performed with ten users through interviews online.
Fifteen testimonials from the
community Eu descobri pelo Orkut were also analyzed. The
results mainly
revealed that the swap of spicy, tender or illicit
messages by Orkut, are
considered betrayal, such as to visualize pictures from
other men or women.
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Duman, Temel Emine. "Mediating Role Of Marital Satisfaction In The Types Of Infidelity." Master's thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615525/index.pdf.
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the predictor role of type of
infidelity, trait positive affect, and coping on forgiveness via marital
satisfaction. In addition, present study aimed to examine gender differences
in the proposed relationships among study variables. Demographic
Information Form, Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS),
Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Inventory (TRIM), Dyadic
Adjustment Scale (DAS) and Turkish Ways of Coping Inventory (TWCI)
were administered to 122 married individuals. Results indicated that 1)
marital satisfaction did not mediate the relationship between types of
infidelity and forgiveness<br>2) marital satisfaction mediated the relationship
between trait positive affect and forgiveness<br>3) marital satisfaction did not
mediate the relationship between problem focused-coping and forgiveness
while marital satisfaction mediated the relationship between emotionfocused
coping and forgiveness<br>4) gender differences in proposed
relationships among study variables were rejected because men and women
have similar parameters for the proposed model. After findings were evaluated, limitations were discussed with an emphasis on recommendations
for future research, and implications for clinical psychology were
mentioned.
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Dodini, Aaron Jarrett. "Treating Infidelity: Therapists' Ratings Of Hope, Threat, Forgiveness, And Justification." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36284.
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This exploratory study examined the beliefs of 82 experienced Marriage and Family Therapists regarding the treatment of marital infidelity. Participants were asked to read an on-line vignette and respond to a subsequent web based questionnaire by rating levels of hope, threat, forgiveness, and justification for a couple in regard to various affair scenarios. This study employed an experimental design using six groups to discover possible differences in responses across the dependent variables of hope, threat, forgiveness, and justification. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the six groups, which determined which vignette the participant read. The vignettes varied for each group by the type of affair (sexual, emotional, or combination), and the gender of the affair initiator. This study also looked at therapists' personal experience with affairs.
Findings suggest an affair initiated by a woman was rated as more threatening to the marital relationship than an affair initiated by a man. Participants were also more likely to justify a woman's affair than a man's affair. While tentative, findings suggest that the type of affair and therapists' personal experience with affairs may be legitimate areas for further study within the context of infidelity research.<br>Master of Science
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Diehl, Rebecca L. "Judgmental Attributions on Romantic Infidelity: The Influence of Beliefs in Free Will." Marietta College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1397827180.
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Camp, Taylor, and Taylor Camp. "Infidelity Beliefs and Behaviours: A Broad Examination of Cheating in Romantic Relationships." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621917.
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What does it mean to cheat within romantic relationships? Most people have unique perspectives on this interpersonal phenomenon, which have inevitably been influenced by their past experiences. This research paper begins with a literature review discussing possible relationships between individuals’ attitudes and behaviors as related to cheating. To address some of the possible beliefs and behaviors associated with cheating, this paper will also examine how personal characteristics, gender differences, and personal histories, among other variables, can relate to cheating through a data analysis of a short survey. Although findings are varied, this research aims to highlight interesting associations with cheating practices and mention important information that will be valuable in future research.
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Wong, Hoi-woon Amy. "A social worker's reflection on handling infidelity issues with violent couples." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36783079.
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Nair, Dixsha Shivani. "Are men and women really different? Social institutional approaches to infidelity." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17462.
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Infidelity is often cited as the leading cause of marital dissolution. Moreover, previous research has focused on gender differences, relationship variables and other variables, such as religion and employment without establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework. To the extent that theories are established, they focus on the inherent differences between men and women. It is theorized that women and men approach infidelity differently due to different mating strategies. Men are more likely to commit adultery than women because they engage in short-term mating with multiple partners. Women, on the other hand, engage in long term mating and when they do have affairs, they are emotionally involved. However, current estimates of infidelity range from one to six percent and indicate that the vast majority of individuals do not approve of nor engage in extramarital sex. I argue that social institutions such as marriage, religion, and work inform both behaviour and attitudes regarding infidelity. These institutions establish norms and conventions, which also influence aspects of sex including infidelity. As such, the current study examines whether attitudes and behaviours regarding infidelity can be explained as the result of inherent differences between men and women or whether social institutions also play a role.
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Wong, Hoi-woon Amy, and 黃海媛. "A social worker's reflection on handling infidelity issues with violent couples." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43895426.
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Chi, Peilian, and 池培莲. "Forgiveness following spousal infidelity: a process exploration in the Chinese community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46582897.
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Malachowski, Colleen C. "Stay or leave? the effects of communicative infidelity on relationship outcomes /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10377.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2009.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 72 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-55).
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Atkins, David C. "Infidelity and marital therapy : initial findings from a randomized clinical trial /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9029.
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Fricker, Julie, and n/a. "Predicting infidelity the role of attachment styles, lovestyles, and the investment model." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060828.095633.
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Infidelity violates a western norm that a range of interpersonal behaviours
should remain exclusive in committed romantic relationships. Once exposed, the
aftermath can be detrimental to all concerned. However, despite a cultural majority
endorsing this belief and apprised of the potential consequences of its violations,
infidelity or extradyadic relationships are widespread. Furthermore, individual
differences in beliefs about what constitutes infidelity blur the boundaries of acceptable
behaviour, making the concept of unfaithfulness difficult to fully describe. This
variation in attitudes and behaviour, along with the consistent media attention infidelity
attracts affirms the enigmatic nature of the behaviour. In response, an aim of the study
was to clarify the construct of infidelity among a contemporary Australian sample. This
was achieved in two ways. Firstly, the study examined beliefs and behaviours
associated with unfaithfulness using qualitative (focus group) and largely quantitative
(survey) data. Secondly, the study involved investigation of the association between
infidelity and several individual, relationship and environmental variables. Differences
in relationships and environmental conditions can be conceptualised within the
theoretical framework of the investment model, while adult attachment theory and a
lovestyles typology offer theoretical underpinnings to the study of individual
differences. Specifically, the aim of this stage of the study was to examine how adult
attachment styles (anxious, avoidant), lovestyles (eros, ludus, storge, mania, pragma,
agape), relationship variables (satisfaction, investment, commitment), and an
environmental variable (perceived alternatives) predicted infidelity.
The sample comprised 243 women and 69 men between the ages of 18 and 60
years (M = 31.3 years, SD = 11.9) who were currently in a romantic relationship of at
least one year or who had recently been in such a relationship. Participants completed
measures pertaining to attachment, lovestyles and various aspects of relationship quality
in addition to several measures of extradyadic behaviour. The study found that
infidelity, as defined by respondents, was engaged in by 20% of individuals in their
current relationships and by 42% of individuals in their previous relationships.
Regarding the nature of infidelity, the current findings indicated that various sexual and
emotional behaviours carried out with someone other than one's primary partner were
considered unfaithful by the vast majority, while fantasy and flirting behaviours were
generally seen as acceptable. It was noteworthy, however, that a substantial minority also viewed fantasy as unfaithful, underlining the inherent complexity of the construct.
The hypotheses concerning the variables predicting infidelity were partially supported.
Results suggested that individuals most likely to engage in extradyadic behaviour were
those with an avoidant attachment style or a Ludus lovestyle, more perceived
alternatives to their relationship, and most unexpectedly, higher levels of investment in
their relationship. Conversely, those least likely to engage in these behaviours were
those with an Eros Lovestyle and greater levels of commitment to their relationship.
The study confirmed the prevalence of infidelity and emphasised the differential
attitudes, behaviours and motivations associated with it. These differences are discussed
in relation to the theories presented and an argument is made for research on infidelity
to take a broader focus, one that includes the combined aspects of individuals, their
relationships and the environment. Implications of these findings for individuals and
couples and for the professionals who work with them are discussed, along with
suggestions for future research.
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Fricker, Julie. "Predicting infidelity the role of attachment styles, lovestyles, and the investment model /." Australasian Digital Thesis Program, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20060828.095633.
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Thesis DPsych (Counselling Psychology) -- Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.<br>Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Professional Doctorate in Psychology (Counselling Psychology), Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150).
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Pieluzek, Aleksandra Anna. "Men's experience of infidelity in heterosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2014. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/677/.
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Although the prevalent attitude towards infidelity in British society is that it is wrong, 50-65% of couples enter therapy due to problems with infidelity. Past research studies tend to focus on predictors of infidelity to help identify the offending partner’s risk factors. Despite the prevalence of infidelity, and a vast amount of popular literature on the subject, there is a dearth of quantitative research exploring consequences of infidelity for the injured partner. There is only one qualitative study exploring the injured partners’ emotional process following disclosure of infidelity, which is focused predominately on women. In this study, semi-structured interviews were employed to explore the experience of six heterosexual men who were the injured partner in the context of committed relationships. The researcher was particularly interested in the ways these men experienced their partner’s infidelity and the ways they coped with the disclosure of infidelity. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method was employed in order to analyse the participants’ responses. Based on the analysis of the participants’ account three superordinate themes were identified: The Trauma of Disclosure; Trying to Cope; and Moving Forward. The findings revealed immediate consequences of infidelity for the injured partners such as the emotional impact of the disclosure and insight into the injured partners’ coping behaviours. The study further revealed long-term consequences of infidelity for the injured partners and their future relationships. All participants expressed stigma and feelings of shame associated with seeking professional help. The implications for counselling psychologists’ practice are discussed and suggestions for improving access to psychological therapies. Implications for further research are also discussed.
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Hertlein, Katherine Anne. "Internet Infidelity: An Examination of Family Therapist Treatment Decisions and Gender Biases." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26225.
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The Internet is being used more and more frequently as a way for people to meet. The Internet also provides increased opportunities to initiate couple relationships, as well as affairs. The present study adds to the existing literature base in Internet infidelity treatment as well as therapist conceptualization processes.
The present study investigated how family therapists assess and treat Internet infidelity. It assessed whether gender and other social background variables of therapists are operating in treatment decisions. Specifically, this study provided three clinical vignettes to 508 practicing marriage and family therapists and asked them several treatment and assessment questions about the cases while manipulating the gender of the clients in the vignettes. The questions asked of clinicians assess the clinicianâ s prognosis of the case, the clinicianâ s treatment strategy, how many sessions might be necessary, and how severe the clinician perceives the problem. Results include:
a) treatment decisions of therapists regarding Internet infidelity cases
b) information as to whether the assessment and treatment decisions vary according to the gender of the clients in Internet infidelity vignettes
c) whether the treatment decisions vary depending on the clinicianâ s social background characteristics (such as age, religiosity, gender).
The results indicate that therapists who are more religious tended to view Internet infidelity as that which might require a greater individual focus. Age and gender of the clinicians also affected how therapists used treated cases, with younger clinicians more likely to alter environmental issues and female clinicians more likely to focus on couple processes in treatment. Further, clinicians also viewed men as more likely to be sex addicted, while women engaging in the same behavior were viewed as atypical for engaging in the same behavior. Clinicians also made differential decisions in treatment based on client needs, client gender, client health, and their personal theoretical orientation.
This study sheds light on the role of specific identity variables in treatment decisions. It also provides a foundational knowledge of the treatment of Internet infidelity that will serve as a springboard for future projects to examine the effectiveness of different treatments, develop treatment protocols, and elevate the standard of care for this increasingly prevalent presenting problem.<br>Ph. D.
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Hertlein, Katherine M. "Internet infidelity an examination of family therapist treatment decisions and gender biases /." [Blacksburg, Va. : University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2004. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02172004-121146.
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Gorniewicz, James Stephen. "Do Adult Romantic Attachment Empathy and Social Skills Influence Mate Poaching Infidelity?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1311.
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The present study examined the possibility that adult romantic attachment orientation, empathy, and social skills could either individually or jointly influence the expression of mate poaching behaviors. Participants (N = 404) were recruited from a Southern Appalachian university and ranged in age from 18-60 years, with a mean of 21. Data were collected using a web-based survey system. Results of this study lend support to the growing literature demonstrating a link between adult romantic attachment and mate poaching. Additionally, the present study also added to the literature by showing for the first time 1) a relationship between empathy and mate poaching and 2) a relationship between social skills and mate poaching. Contrary to one of the hypothesized structural models, adult attachment was not found to mediate the relationships between 1) empathy and mate poaching and 2) social skills and mate poaching.
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Sauerheber, Jill Duba, and J. Graham Disque. "A Trauma-Based Physiological Approach: Helping Betrayed Partners Heal from Marital Infidelity." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2790.
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This article will address how a physiological understanding of trauma can be applied to working with couples in which an affair has initiated trauma symptoms. A brief introduction related to trauma symptomology, as well as its impact on the body, will be included. A case example will demonstrate how a counselor worked with a betrayed partner struggling with ongoing trauma symptoms. Finally, a brief discussion on why this process is particularly fitting for Adlerian clinicians will be presented.
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Edmonson, Kindra Lynn. "An evolutionary psychology perspective on responsibility attributions for infidelity and relationship dissolution." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3318.
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This study investigated responsibility attributions for a partner's emotional infidelity and for a partner's sexual infidelity, and the likelyhood that the victim or partner would end the relationship. This study found a significant relationship between responsibility attributions for a romantic partner's unfaithfulness and the likelihood the relationship would end: the stronger the attributions of personal responsibility the more likely the relationship would dissolve.
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McCray, Myriam Levesque. "Infidelity, Trust, Commitment, and Marital Satisfaction Among Military Wives During Husbands' Deployment." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/758.
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Over 1.5 million U.S. soldiers have deployed oversees since the beginning of the War on Terror in 2001; consequently, spouses are faced with new physical, emotional, and psychological challenges. Many researchers have documented the effects of deployment on marriages and families. However, few researchers have explored the correlates of trust, marital commitment, and marital satisfaction for wives during deployment. This quantitative study, grounded in risk and resilience theory and interdependence theory, used a web-based survey to investigate the relationship between perceived likelihood of spousal infidelity, trust, marital commitment, and marital satisfaction in a sample of 127 military wives whose husbands were deployed oversees. The 'Events with Others' questionnaire, Dyadic Trust Scale, Commitment Inventory Revised, Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale, and Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale were used. Results indicated that length of deployment did not have a statistically significant impact on marital satisfaction. Bivariate correlation analysis indicated statistically significant relationships among wives' perceived likelihood of spousal infidelity, trust, marital commitment, and marital satisfaction. After controlling for wives' attachment style, marital commitment and trust were significant explanatory variables of marital satisfaction. The findings from this study can inform establishing effective programs to support military marriages during deployment. Such programs will promote social change by improving satisfaction, decreasing relationship conflicts, and reducing the rate of divorce. The Armed Forces may benefit from the results of this study by addressing marital commitment and trust issues prior to deployment, thereby supporting wives, husbands, and children during deployment.
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Alvarado, Heather Ann. "Attachment and Perceived Infidelity of Military Spouses During Active-Duty Members’ Deployment." ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7583.
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Frequent military deployments have been associated with relationship issues for active-duty members, such as marital conflict and infidelity. Previous research has indicated that attachment, communication, and mental health are associated with military marriages’ stability during deployment. However, there remains an important gap in the current literature on military marriages regarding perceptions of infidelity (emotional and sexual). Proponents of attachment theory postulate that early attachment experiences facilitate the development of self-perception as well as perceptions of others. From this perspective, the attachment of military spouses is associated with their perceptions of their active-duty spouses engaging in infidelity. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between attachment, as measured by the Adult Attachment Scale, and infidelity perceptions, as measured by the Infidelity Expectations Questionnaire, for military spouses during their active-duty members’ deployment. A sample of 178 military spouses was recruited through social media platforms to complete surveys. Correlation analysis and multiple linear regression were conducted to identify the association and strength between attachment scores and infidelity perceptions. Findings indicate that proximity was a challenge due to deployment, during which spouses were continuously faced with communication challenges and feeling detached from the active-duty member. This contribution to existing literature may enhance social-change initiatives by informing education for military couples, providing a basis for attachment and infidelity-related training.
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Alvarado, Heather A. "Attachment and Perceived Infidelity of Military Spouses during Active-Duty Members’ Deployment." Thesis, Walden University, 2020. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=27548986.
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Frequent military deployments have been associated with relationship issues for active-duty members, such as marital conflict and infidelity. Previous research has indicated that attachment, communication, and mental health are associated with military marriages’ stability during deployment. However, there remains an important gap in the current literature on military marriages regarding perceptions of infidelity (emotional and sexual). Proponents of attachment theory postulate that early attachment experiences facilitate the development of self-perception as well as perceptions of others. From this perspective, the attachment of military spouses is associated with their perceptions of their active-duty spouses engaging in infidelity. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between attachment, as measured by the Adult Attachment Scale, and infidelity perceptions, as measured by the Infidelity Expectations Questionnaire, for military spouses during their active-duty members’ deployment. A sample of 178 military spouses was recruited through social media platforms to complete surveys. Correlation analysis and multiple linear regression were conducted to identify the association and strength between attachment scores and infidelity perceptions. Findings indicate that proximity was a challenge due to deployment, during which spouses were continuously faced with communication challenges and feeling detached from the active-duty member. This contribution to existing literature may enhance social-change initiatives by informing education for military couples, providing a basis for attachment and infidelity-related training.
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Kimeldorf, Marcia Beth. "Reactions to Infidelity: Individual, Gender, and Situational Predictors of Relationship Outcome and Forgiveness." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/145.
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Infidelity in romantic relationships can be devastating, and can cause many complex emotional reactions. The Jealousy as a Specific Innate Module (JSIM) hypothesis posits that due to differing reproductive pressures over evolutionary history, men and women have evolved different mechanisms to respond to infidelity. JSIM proposes that men, due to fears of cuckoldry, will respond with intense jealousy to a partner's sexual infidelity. It proposes that women, who are certain of their maternity but may suffer severe consequences if their mate falls in love with another and diverts his resources elsewhere, will respond with intense jealousy to emotional infidelity. These gender effects were examined in a study of participants who had recently been cheated on sexually, emotionally, or both, by romantic partners. Distress, forgiveness, and couple identity were measured. Results among actual victims of infidelity failed to support the JSIM hypotheses. Men and women responded with similar levels of distress to both types of infidelity. Both men and women were less forgiving as sexual infidelity severity increased, yet the severity of sexual infidelity was associated positively and significantly with less forgiveness for women, and it was associated less positively and non-significantly with less forgiveness for men. Men reported more couple identity after infidelity than did women. In a larger sample that used hypothetical scenarios, it was found that men responded with more upset to sexual infidelity and women responded with more upset to emotional infidelity when using a forced choice method.
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Nicholls, Kate. "Researching relationships : unpacking the discursive organisation of infidelity and monogamy in personal relationships." Thesis, City University London, 2009. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12446/.
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This research employed a social constructionist paradigm and utilised discourse analysis to examine the discursive organisation of infidelity and monogamy in personal relationships. Twenty-five participants took part in this study, fifteen taking part in semi-structured interviews and ten participants taking part in group discussions (two groups of three, one group of four). The interviews and focus groups primarily explored participants’ views and experiences of monogamy and infidelity in relationships. The focus group participants were also convened for second meetings, where participants discussed the results and analysis generated from their first group meeting. The discursive analysis employed in this research was guided by a Discursive Psychology approach (Potter & Wetherell 1987) and a methodology developed to explore ‘discourse analysis in action’ by incorporating principles from Action Research. The results presented explored discursive constructions of monogamy, infidelity, relationship break-ups and also several broader relationship discourses. The findings suggest that although there is a grand discourse of monogamy often informing participants’ discussions of personal relationships, and participants draw on normative discourses in terms of labelling behaviour as in/fidelity. Participants also diversely rework discourses of monogamy and infidelity to present more contextualised accounts, varyingly constructed around their own lived experiences. The findings highlight the potential for confusion and interpersonal complications, as well as the complications for researchers, when negotiating and exploring the terrain of monogamy and infidelity in personal relationships. The findings further point to the theoretical importance of paying attention to the constructed nature of language and its role in constructing varying relationship realities. Further this thesis has contributed to a theoretical and methodological debate on the development of the use of discourse analysis as an appropriate methodology, the development of a framework to explore ‘discourse analysis in action’ posited the benefits of incorporating principles from action research into a discourse analysis method. This methodology component was theoretically interesting and also invaluable in terms of adding to the analysis and the understanding gained of infidelity and monogamy in personal relationships.
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Kleine, Michelle Hess Jon A. "For better or worse? the impact of accounts and attributions following marital infidelity /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4685.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 10, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Caponi, Paolo. "Adultery in the high canon: forms of infidelity in Joyce, Beckett and Pinter." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/485.
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Zerbini, Maria Irene dos Santos. "Infidelidade: o virtual invade a conjugalidade - o que buscam os usuários de sites de infidelidade." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15332.
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Previous issue date: 2014-02-27<br>The aim of this qualitative and quantitative research was to better understand what the users of an infidelity-oriented website search for. Infidelity is a recurring theme in couples therapy clinic and with the advent of the internet, new and different modalities of extramarital modalities have become part of marital dynamics. According to the specialized websites, the internet functions as a facilitating element for infidelity since it associates anonymity between contacts and privacy of users. In order to guarantee the anonymity of the users we decided upon using Discourse of the Collective Subject as a method, which allows us to express the manifest content of spontaneous discourse which users add to their profiles and so we have constructed collective thought in the form of discourse. In order to observe the phenomenon, we have adopted the point of view of conjugality, Attachment Theory, Life Cycle model, and Investment Model. Profile data from 270 users of an infidelity-oriented website were analyzed, consisting of 154 women and 116 men, all of which, according to the website´s information, are in committed relationships and reside in the state of São Paulo. All users showed spontaneous discourse registered in their profile, and our approach was to relate the quantitative aspects about what they were looking for in the website with qualitative aspects expressed through spontaneous written content. The users were separated into three age groups: 25-35, 36-45, and 46-60 years old. Results show differences between men and women and also differences between age groups. There were also marked differences on site connection frequency between genders, where men consisted of 13.8% and women 74% of online participants. The full face and body photos posted by women (63%) showed higher results than men (24%), and in the private photo galleries where more intimate photos are posted there is a significant increase in the 46 to 60 years old demographic. What attracts women to the website seems to differ in the different age groups, but all show interest in good personal hygiene and a good sense of humor; men showed variations according to age groups, but in all age groups seem to be attracted to discretion, confidentiality, good personal hygiene and a good sense of humor. Both men and women showed similarities in what they expect from intimacy even though there were choice differences depending on age groups. Qualitative analysis of the Collective Subject Discourse showed expressions which corroborate quantitative analysis data differently in each age group<br>O objetivo desta pesquisa qualiquantitativa foi compreender o que buscam os usuários de um site de infidelidade. A infidelidade é um tema recorrente na clínica com casais e com o advento da internet, novas modalidades de envolvimentos extraconjugais passaram a fazer parte da dinâmica conjugal. A internet funciona como um elemento facilitador para a infidelidade por associar anonimato aos contatos e privacidade aos envolvidos, segundo proclamam os sites mas não observado neste estudo. Para garantir aos usuários dos sites o anonimato de seus perfis, a confidencialidade de suas frases e a privacidade de sua identidade virtual elegemos o Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo, que permite explicitar o conteúdo manifesto das expressões espontâneas que os participantes registram em seu perfil e assim construímos um pensamento coletivo em forma de discurso. Resolvemos utilizar a lente da conjugalidade, e as abordagens que dialogaram com o tema infidelidade foram a Teoria do Apego, a Intergeracionalidade, o Modelo de Investimento e o Ciclo Vital da Família. Foram analisados os dados do perfil de 270 usuários de site de infidelidade, sendo 154 mulheres e 116 homens, todos comprometidos e residentes no Estado de São Paulo, de acordo com o perfil preenchido no site. Todos possuíam expressões espontâneas registradas no perfil, e nossa proposta foi relacionar os aspectos quantitativos sobre o que buscam nos sites, com os aspectos qualitativos que expressam através da escrita espontânea. Os participantes do site foram analisados em três faixas etárias: 25 a 35 anos; 36 a 45 anos e 46 a 60 anos. Os resultados demonstraram diferenças na presença entre homens e mulheres e entre faixas etárias. Apareceram contrastes na conexão (participantes on-line no momento da pesquisa), entre homens (13,8%) e mulheres (74%) no site. A exposição de fotos de rosto e corpo inteiro nas mulheres (63%) superou os homens (24%), e na galeria de fotos privadas, onde são colocadas fotos íntimas, houve um aumento na faixa etária dos 46 aos 60 anos. O que atrai as mulheres no site distingue-se nas faixas etárias, mas todas desejam boa higiene pessoal e senso de humor; os homens também apresentam diferenças de acordo com as faixas etárias, mas em todas as fases sentem-se atraídos pela discrição e sigilo, boa higiene pessoal e senso de humor. Homens e mulheres apresentam similaridade no que desejam na intimidade. Há algumas diferenças nas escolhas entre as faixas etárias. A análise qualitativa do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo apresenta expressões que endossam aspectos da análise quantitativa de forma diferente em cada faixa etária
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Richardson-Quamina, Tenille Anise. "Online Behavioral Boundaries: An Investigation of How Engaged Couples Negotiate Agreements Regarding What is Considered Online Infidelity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52948.
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Previous research has examined the various types of online infidelity, gender differences in online sexual behaviors, and relationship consequences of online affairs. Despite this attention, there remains a research gap regarding ways to prevent online infidelity. When couples seek therapy to address this issue, therapists report a lack of specific preparedness. This qualitative research project focused on methods for assisting couples by studying how they develop an agreement regarding appropriate and inappropriate online behaviors. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data from dyadic interviews with 12 engaged heterosexual couples. The interviews generated five common steps in the process of developing an agreement: (a) discuss the various online activities the couple participates in online; (b) define online infidelity; (c) discuss which activities are appropriate and which are not appropriate; (d) develop rules; and (e) state what occurs when an agreement is violated. Three couples had developed an agreement prior to the study and two couples developed an agreement through the process of the interview. Seven couples reported, however, that an agreement would not be beneficial in their relationship. These couples suggested using alternatives to an online behavior agreement including have mutual respect, eliminate questionable activities, get to know their fiancé or fiancée, and not participate in any online activities that they would not do in front of their partner. Although the study presupposed that couples would embrace the development of a mutual agreement, most couples elected to use other approaches. The results raise useful questions about couple readiness for structured prevention strategies and therapist approaches for clinical intervention.<br>Ph. D.
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Moore, Dana Jenae. "The Relationship Between Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity, and Tolerance of Infidelity Among College Women at Risk for HIV." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338086135.
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Burns, Angela Mary. "Professions of love : the discursive construction of love and romance in intimate heterosexual relationships." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54177/.
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For this thesis, my aim was to deconstruct the notion of heterosexual love in order to question if and how current stories of love are involved in producing gender inequality. Using discourse analysis, informed by feminist theory, I analysed, in detail, qualitative interviews with eleven women and eleven men about their most important intimate heterosexual relationships and their experiences of love. The traditional view of romantic love as a symbol of freedom and redemption has been challenged by feminist arguments that romantic love obscures male privilege in intimate heterosexual relationships. Mainstream social psychological research has tended to measure and categorize 'love' with little regard to wider historical and social contexts which means that the few in-depth explorations of the complex meanings of love are primarily sociological. Where some research has suggested that gender inequality may proceed from women's investment in romance and men's in emotional illiteracy (e.g. Jackson, 1993; Langford, 1999), others conceive that a wider democratization of social life is producing a shift to more rational and equitable intimate relationships (e.g. Giddens, 1992; Illouz, 1997). My findings demonstrate that talk of love is extremely complex while also cliched and inchoate. I identified two broad and pervasive discourses, in tension with each other - the discourse of romantic love and the work discourse of love and intimacy. The romantic discourse was inextricably inscribed with discourses of emotion where the work discourse was associated with doing rather than feeling. The work discourse allowed the male interviewees, in particular, to construct relationships as contexts for their own personal growth work and exercise of expertise. The democratization of heterosexual love may not be well underway if a shift to rational intimacy involves a transformation of romantic feeling into a narcissistic discourse of personal success. I also identified how male privilege was instantiated in discourses of infidelity.
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Howard, Aimee Colleen. "Probability Discounting of the Quality of Sexual Relationships." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1372.
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The responses from a probability discounting procedure was collected to make between and within-group comparisons of the quality of sex with different sexual partners and monetary rewards between individuals who have engaged in infidelity in the past and individuals who have never engaged in infidelity in the past. A modification to the quality of the overall relationship was introduced to identify whether discounting outcomes could be altered. Gender differences were also examined. Results showed a significant difference between groups when discounting the quality of sex of differing sexual partners but no difference between groups with monetary rewards. There was also a significant difference between commodity types within the group that have never engaged in infidelity but no difference between commodity type within the group that has engaged in infidelity in the past. The modification of the quality of the overall relationship resulted in no significant difference in responses to the probability discounting trials and there were no significant gender differences.
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Chuick, Christopher Daniel. "Gender and infidelity: a study of the relationship between conformity to masculine norms and extrarelational involvement." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/284.
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While a great deal of research has been completed on the relationship between biological sex and infidelity, no research currently exists that examines the relationship between masculine gender norms and infidelity. In this study, 202 men and 486 women were recruited from a Midwestern university, the surrounding community, and nationallyon line. Their Conformity to Masculine Norms (CMNI) scores were compared to threeinfidelity measures: a modified version of the Attitudes Toward Marital Exclusivity Scale(ATME), the Justification for Extramarital Infidelity Questionnaire (JEIQ) sexual justifications subscale, and the JEIQ emotional intimacy justifications subscale. Participants' CMNI total score was hypothesized to be correlated with ATME total scores, JEIQ sexual justification, and JEIQ emotional intimacy justification scores. Further, scores on four CMNI subscales ("risk taking", "dominance", "playboy", and "pursuit of status") were hypothesized to predict ATME total scores, as well as JEIQ sexual and emotional intimacy justification subscales scores for both men and women. Preliminary analysis identified significant variance between men's and women's responses to the ATME and JEIQ sexual intimacy subscales. Results were therefore presented for both men and women separately. Men's, but not women's, CMNI total scores were found to be correlated with their ATME total and JEIQ sexual scores. Both men's and women's scores on identified CMNI subscales scores were found to predict ATME, JEIQ sexual, and JEIQ emotional scores. For men, only "playboy" scores were related to the variance these scores. For women, "playboy" was associated with variance in ATME scores, both "risk-taking" and "playboy" were associated with variance in JEIQ sexual scores, and both "playboy" and "pursuit of status" were associated with variance inJEIQ emotional scores. From these results, utility of overall conformity to masculine in understanding men's attitudes about infidelity is established. Additionally, masculine nonrelational sexuality norms are found to be useful in understanding attitudes and approval of sex based infidelity.
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Howe, Bonnie M. "The hurting wife a biblical counseling resource for wives dealing with their husbands' infidelity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p091-0045.
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Oala, Monica. "Single women and infidelity : a feminist qualitative analysis of extramarital relationships and their termination." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115628.
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Extramarital relationships and women's sexuality are by far some of the most controversial and elusive subjects in our society, and most of the empirical literature and popular opinion about the connection between women and infidelity perceive it as unequivocally taboo. Following the work of feminist researchers who valorize the potential for women's sexual experiences and view heterosexual relationships as a form of oppression, I explore the extramarital relationships between single women and married men. To perform this exploration, I completed two-part, in-depth interviews with eleven single women who had an intimate relationship with a married man. Once the interviews were transcribed verbatim, I completed a four-step voice-centered relational reading and analysis of the interviews in which participants' experiences were summarized into three relationships: with themselves, with the married man, and with the married man's wife. I set aside the themes that emerged from this inquiry and I performed a discourse analysis on the participants' narratives for each of these three relationships. Since the resulting themes from the voice-centered relational analysis overlapped considerably with the dominant discourses that emerged from the discourse analysis, a more in-depth feminist analysis was performed exclusively on the latter. In summary, the most commonly occurring dominant discourses were a struggle with morality, identity development and identity reconstruction; responsibility toward women (the married man's wife); and a negative emotional aftermath following the end of the relationship. Consequently, this analysis also found an occurrence of three types of extramarital relationships: satisfying, distressing/distancing, and emotionally abusive. Each dominant discourse was deconstructed per participant and per interview by using a feminist theoretical lens.<br>The analysis paved the way for a relational and socio-political examination of single women's experiences of infidelity. The implications of this study are discussed by comparing them to existing investigations, both feminist and traditional, of women's intimate relationships. This study thus aimed to understand the experiences of single women who have had intimate relationships with married men, to empower them as well as the mental health professionals and educators who work with this particular clientele.
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Marchese, Jeanfreau Michelle. "A qualitative study investigating the decision-making process of women’s participation in marital infidelity." Diss., Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2171.
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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Family Studies and Human Services<br>Anthony Jurich<br>This study used a qualitative approach as a means of exploring the decision-making process of women's participation in marital infidelity. Due to the growing prevalence and negative effects of marital infidelity, it is important for both clinicians and researchers to understand its occurrence. Although there has been a significant amount of research on marital infidelity in recent years, there is not any significant research that looks at the process occurring in both the marital and extramarital relationships. This study focused on examining the process an individual goes through when making the decision to have an affair, particularly, how they were able to give themselves permission to have an affair. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four female participants who had participated in marital infidelity. The interviews were audio taped, transcribed, and analyzed using the transcendental phenomenological model (Moustakas, 1994). Four categories and 14 themes emerged, regarding the decision-making and permission-giving processes of women’s participation in marital infidelity. The women reported a lack of quality time spent with their husbands, as well as a lack of attention they received from their husbands. The women also discussed an inability to solve conflict within their marriage. The women reported developing relationships, outside of their marriage, either with ex-flames, old friends, or new friends, all of whom became their affair partner. The women reported the support of family and/or friends for the extramarital relationship, along with receiving positive attention from their affair partner. The women discussed the moral values as being a deterrent to marital infidelity, but did not perceive enough barriers or protective factors as preventing them from moving forward with the affair. Finally, the women described ways in which they were able to limit cognitive dissonance as a means of giving themselves permission to move forward with the affair. Clinical and research implications were discussed, as well as, the limitations of the current study.
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Marchese, Jeanfreau Michelle. "A qualitative study investigating the decision-making process of women's participation in marital infidelity." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2171.
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