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...

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...

introduction: despite the legal and moral sanctions against infidelity and reported negative attitudes, the ubiquity of infidelity in the our country is difficult to deny. due to the growing prevalence and negative effects of marital infidelity, understanding the complex relationships among selected individual and relationship variables that contribute to infidelity it is important and help pre...

The current study explored whether the wives of men entering alcoholism treatment are at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) exposure as a result of their husbands' sexual risk behaviors. The extramarital relationships of married alcoholic men entering outpatient treatment (n = 125) were compared with those of a demographically matched community sample of nonalcoholic married men (n...

In most of their forms, extramarital activities by Vietnamese men are not perceived as indelity or adultery. Extramarital relationships often facilitate male bonding and are important signiers of Vietnamese masculinity and male privilege. However, Vietnamese men face signicant role strain as their wives become better educated, more independent, and contribute greater amounts to the family in...