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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"infidelity"”.
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Family Background and Propensity to Engage in Infidelity: Exploring an Intergenerational Transmission of Infidelity
… to explore whether the experience of a parental infidelity is associated with a greater likelihood of offspring having engaged in infidelity, as well as test a theoretical model grounded in social learning theory to help explain why such intergenerational infidelity patterns may exist. Results …
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The effects of infidelity on lesbian relationships
… couples in terms of the effects of affairs or infidelity. However, there is little information on infidelity or affairs among lesbian couples. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the effects of infidelity on lesbian couples. An additional purpose of this study was to bring …
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Infidelity and Identity: Cheating, Children, and the Church
… 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 …
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Experiences Of Trust After Infidelity In A Previous Relationship
… leaving a previous relationship after partner infidelity. The amount of research that covers this topic is limited, and many researchers opt to remove participants who do not wish to maintain their current relationship. Many researchers focus on reconciliation and forgiveness, which creates a …
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Recovery from Infidelity: Exploring Variables Related to the Healing Process
… that growth and improvement is possible after infidelity takes place. However, research has not explored specific variables that should relate to improvement in the aftermath of infidelity. Results showed that differentiation of self was found to be related to forgiveness levels. High scores on …
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Development of a Contextual Model for the Treatment of Infidelity
… and recovery from them. Therefore, resolution of infidelity involves the interplay of many complex issues, of which gender, power, and culture are part (Williams, 2011). When contextual factors such as gender and power are not explicitly conceptualized, equality in couple relationships is assumed …
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Treating Infidelity: Therapists' Ratings Of Hope, Threat, Forgiveness, And Justification
… 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 …
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Stay or leave? The effects of communicative infidelity on relationship outcomes
… was to examine the effects of communicative infidelity (CI) motives on relationship outcomes. CI motives include jealousy, vengefulness, sexual self-esteem, sexual depression, and sexual preoccupation, while outcomes included forgiveness, reparation, voice, exit, loyalty, and neglect …
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The Effect of Image Repair on Perceived Relationship Satisfaction after Infidelity
<p>In the wake of infidelity, romantic partners must decide how to move beyond the act of betrayal. Although infidelity can be concealed, sometimes others learn of the infidelity, which may impel a cheater to take steps to repair his or her image. This study examined the use of image repair on …
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INFIDELITY AND THE BIOECOLOGICAL PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR MENTAL HEALTH: A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION
<p>Infidelity is an important topic of research due to the profound effects on the individual experiencing the trauma. Through the lens of bioecological systems and betrayal trauma, the impact of infidelity on mental health is examined in relation to the most proximal systems to an individual which …
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The “Red Harlot of Infidelity”: The life and works of Frances Wright
Frances Wright D'Arusmont carved a path of liberal thought through the time-hardened road of prejudices, class systems, and unjust legal holds on women in the first part of the nineteenth century. Throughout history, trail blazers such as Wright led not only their contemporaries, but also the next …
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Men's experience of infidelity in hetrosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis
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 …
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Do Adult Romantic Attachment Empathy and Social Skills Influence Mate Poaching Infidelity?.
<p>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 …
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Moving Beyond Betrayal: How Meaning-Making and Power Promote Forgiveness Following Infidelity
… how forgiveness may be fostered following infidelity. To do so, participants completed questionnaires assessing meaning-making and forgiveness. In Study 1 (N = 330), results revealed that people who found meaning in their experience of infidelity were more willing to forgive their romantic …
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Internet Infidelity: An Examination of Family Therapist Treatment Decisions and Gender Biases
… 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 …
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Researching relationships: Unpacking the discursive organisation of infidelity and monogamy in personal relationships
… 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). …
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The roles of commitment and attributions on uninvolved partner responses to imagined sexual infidelity
… uninvolved partner responses to imagined sexual infidelity. Undergraduate students (N = 298) in dating relationships participated in a hypothetical sexual infidelity scenario in which they imagined their romantic partner engaged in sexual intercourse with someone else. Measured-variable path …
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