aim and background: considering to adverse consequences of infidelity on couples well-being and longevity of marital relationships, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between love schemas and justifications for extramarital involvement and affairs in married women. method and materials: this was a descriptive-correlation study and the samples included 250 married women who...

Surveys reveal that the vast majority of people in the United States expect sexual monogamy in marriage and disapprove of extramarital involvement (EMI; Atwater, 1979; Buss & Shackelford, 1997; Singh, Walton, & Williams, 1976; Smith, 1994; Thornton, 1989; Treas & Giesen, 2000; Wiederman & Allgeier, 1996) with up to 97% of respondents stating that married persons should not engage in extramarita...

Promiscuity, incest and rape are the great causes of premarital pregnancy extramarital births among youth today. This article will study case at Arfiah Shelter Home, Shah Alam, Selangor. The aim this is, first to identify factors influencing trainees’ involvement. Second, examines perception about programme conducted. Third, ethics value after participated in conducted programme. shows most who...

This study examines several aspects of the association between engaging in extramarital sex and the disruption of one's marriage. In particular: is there a differential effect on disruption depending on the gender of the perpetrator? Is the effect of infidelity primarily due to its negative impact on marital quality and one's resistance to divorce? Are there characteristics of marriages that co...

CONTEXT Since 1990, HIV infection in Brazil has spread among the heterosexual population, particularly in the north. Containment of the epidemic can be informed by a better understanding of men's sexual risk behavior. METHODS Logistic, Poisson and multilevel logit models were applied to data on married and cohabiting men who had participated in the 1996 Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey...

CONTEXT In many parts of Africa, women are most likely to become infected with HIV by having unprotected sex with their husbands, who may have acquired the virus through extramarital sex. However, the ways in which aspects of community environments-particularly those related to gender equity-shape men's extramarital sexual risk-taking are not well understood. METHODS Demographic and Health Su...

BACKGROUND Recent research on the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has highlighted the relevance of married individuals‘ extramarital sexual behavior for the spread of the disease. At the same time, there is social disapproval of sexual infidelity. OBJECTIVE This article examines the extent to which Malawian married men‘s likelihood of having extramarital sex is influenced by their expectatio...