Predicting Attitudes towards Infidelity in women: The roles of Sexual Self-Schema and love styles.

Zahrakar, Kianoush; Asadpour, Esmael; Salehi, Hamideh

doi:10.48308/jfr.2025.233363.1646

Predicting Attitudes towards Infidelity in women: The roles of Sexual Self-Schema and love styles.

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Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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¹ , Professor, Counseling Department, Kharazmi University,Iran, Tehran

² Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran

³ kharazmi university

10.48308/jfr.2025.233363.1646

Abstract

Infidelity is considered a multi-dimentional harm from which, people have various interpretations. It could be seen that the gender gap is dwindling and as a result, more women engage in infidelity. This research is aimed at determining the predicting power of love Attitudes & Sexual Self-Schemas in attitudes towards Infidelity in women.This research was conducted using descriptive-correlational method & the statistical population consists of all the women with marital experience who refered to psychological centers in Karaj in 2022. 250 number of women were selected through the convenience sampling method. They answered the questionnaires as follows: Whately's Attitudes toward Infidelity Scale, Women’s Sexual Self-Schema Scale of Anderson and Cyranowski & Love Attitudes Scale of Hendrick & Hendrick.The results of this study showed that all predictive variables and their components had a significant relationship with attitude towards infidelity(p <0.05). In this study, sexual self-schemas & love attitudes altogether, could predict attitude towards infidelity. Regarding the findings of this study, Storge, Pragma, and Agape love attitudes as well as Open/direct & Embarrassed/conservative sexual self-schemas had a significant negative relationship with attitude towards infidelity. Ludus, Mania, and Eros love attitudes and Passionate/romantic sexual self-schema had a significant positive relationship with attitude towards infidelity.

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