Predicting perceived infidelity from gender and interpersonal traits

This study investigated whether perceived infidelity may be predicted from gender, communion, fear of intimacy, and rejection sensitivity. Undergraduates (272 women, 82 men) completed a questionnaire assessing these variables. MANOVA and regression analyses revealed that women, high-communion indivi...

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Published in:Sexual and relationship therapy 2017-01, Vol.32 (1), p.89-101
Main Authors: Oberle, Crystal D., Dooley, Andrea A., Nagurney, Alexander J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communion
Counseling
Fear & phobias
fear of intimacy
Gender
Infidelity
Intimacy
Perceived infidelity
Questionnaires
rejection sensitivity
Sexual intercourse
Threats
Undergraduate students
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Summary:This study investigated whether perceived infidelity may be predicted from gender, communion, fear of intimacy, and rejection sensitivity. Undergraduates (272 women, 82 men) completed a questionnaire assessing these variables. MANOVA and regression analyses revealed that women, high-communion individuals, and low fear-of-intimacy individuals were more likely to perceive sex-based acts (e.g. sexual intercourse) and emotion-based acts (e.g. falling in love without acting on the feelings) as constituting infidelity, compared to men, low-communion individuals, and high fear-of-intimacy individuals, respectively. Rejection sensitivity did not predict perceived infidelity. This research has implications for perceived threats being a function of one's level of commitment to their romantic relationship, and applications for partners in counseling to work on the relationship and understand one another better.
ISSN:1468-1994
1468-1749
DOI:10.1080/14681994.2016.1196290