Cheating under the Circumstances in Marital Relationships: The Development and Examination of the Propensity towards Infidelity Scale
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Study 1
2.1. Materials and Methods
2.1.1. Participants and Procedure
2.1.2. Measures
2.2. Results and Discussion
3. Study 2
3.1. Materials and Methods
3.1.1. Participants and Procedure
3.1.2. Measures
3.2. Results
3.2.1. Confirmatory Factor Analysis
3.2.2. Construct Validity
3.2.3. Criterion Validity
3.2.4. Incremental Validity
3.3. Discussion
4. General Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Items | Factor 1 | Factor 2 |
---|---|---|
PTIS16 | 0.896 | |
PTIS20 | 0.872 | |
PTIS13 | 0.856 | |
PTIS9 | 0.834 | |
PTIS18 | 0.820 | |
PTIS14 | 0.818 | |
PTIS12 | 0.815 | |
PTIS24 | 0.810 | |
PTIS6 | 0.810 | |
PTIS17 | 0.802 | |
PTIS10 | 0.789 | |
PTIS19 | 0.781 | |
PTIS22 | 0.774 | |
PTIS25 | 0.773 | |
PTIS23 | 0.760 | |
PTIS11 | 0.710 | |
PTIS5 | 0.662 | 0.316 |
PTIS15 | 0.603 | |
PTIS4 | 0.602 | |
PTIS8 | 0.562 |
Item | Mean | ||||
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Men | Women | All | SD | Loading | |
1. If my spouse would be unfaithful, it would seem natural to me to have an extramarital relationship. | 2.65 | 2.07 | 2.35 | 1.63 | 0.70 |
2. Flirting with another person would make me feel wanted. | 3.19 | 3.11 | 3.15 | 1.69 | 0.61 |
3. The lack of sexual relations with my spouse would be a reason for me to have an extramarital relationship. | 2.90 | 2.29 | 2.58 | 1.80 | 0.81 |
4. It is plausible for me to have a relationship with someone else than my spouse if I feel emotionally bonded to him/her. | 2.82 | 2.79 | 2.80 | 1.77 | 0.58 |
5. My spouse’s long-term absence would make me engage in relationships with other people. | 2.52 | 1.93 | 2.21 | 1.52 | 0.83 |
6. Colleagues of the opposite sex represent a potential opportunity for an extramarital affair. | 2.00 | 1.64 | 1.81 | 1.30 | 0.74 |
7. If I knew that my spouse would never find out, I could have an extramarital affair. | 2.42 | 1.93 | 2.16 | 1.61 | 0.88 |
8. There are certain contexts in which it would be plausible to have an extramarital affair. | 2.72 | 2.27 | 2.49 | 1.69 | 0.77 |
9. My spouse’s close relationship with a colleague of the opposite sex would make it likely for me to engage in a relationship with someone else. | 2.36 | 1.68 | 2.00 | 1.47 | 0.82 |
10. The fact that other married friends have had extramarital relationships makes me think that it can happen to me. | 2.56 | 1.93 | 2.23 | 1.58 | 0.77 |
Study Variables | PTIS | ITIS | IS | MIQ | MS | MI | MFDA | US | Gender | Age | Spouse Age | Marriage Lenght | Mean | SD |
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PTIS | 1 | 0.741 ** | 0.702 ** | −0.539 ** | −0.374 ** | −0.535 ** | −0.171 ** | −0.089 | −0.180 ** | 0.067 | 0.034 | 0.075 | 2.38 | 1.25 |
ITIS | 1 | 0.672 ** | −0.557 ** | −0.351 ** | −0.577 ** | −0.083 | −0.041 | −0.167 ** | 0.091 | 0.059 | 0.135 * | 2.47 | 1.04 | |
IS | 1 | −0.422 ** | −0.234 ** | −0.458 ** | −0.064 | −0.073 | −0.141 * | −0.023 | −0.043 | 0.016 | 2.87 | 1.28 | ||
MIQ | 1 | 0.805 ** | 0.922 ** | −0.010 | 0.169 ** | 0.149 * | 0.069 | 0.084 | −0.015 | 5.00 | 0.74 | |||
MS | 1 | 0.513 ** | 0.085 | 0.198 ** | 0.125 * | 0.088 | 0.102 | 0.027 | 5.10 | 0.83 | ||||
MI | 1 | −0.069 | 0.115 | 0.134 * | 0.042 | 0.055 | −0.040 | 4.94 | 0.55 | |||||
MFDA | 1 | −0.091 | 0.144 * | 0.095 | 0.143 * | 0.208 ** | 3.11 | 1.34 | ||||||
US | 1 | 0.074 | 0.051 | 0.043 | 0.041 | 4.22 | 1.15 | |||||||
Gender | 1 | 0.016 | 0.272 ** | 0.129 * | 47.6% women | |||||||||
Age | 1 | 0.888 ** | 0.849 ** | 37.41 | 7.93 | |||||||||
Spouse age | 1 | 0.834 ** | 37.45 | 8.26 | ||||||||||
Marriage length | 1 | 10.46 | 8.58 |
Socio-Demographic Variables | PTIS β |
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Gender | −0.219 * |
Age | −0.147 |
Spouse age | 0.119 |
Marriage length | 0.128 |
R2 | 0.042 * |
IS | ||||
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Variables | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | |
β | β | β | ∆R2 | |
Gender | −0.160 * | −0.017 | 0.012 | |
Age | −0.196 | −0.070 | −0.067 | |
Spouse age | 0.016 | −0.017 | −0.057 | |
Marriage length | 0.189 | 0.001 | 0.041 | |
ITIS | 0.675 ** | 0.305 ** | 0.429 ** | |
PTIS | 0.490 ** | 0.102 ** | ||
R2 | 0.559 ** |
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Lișman CG, Holman AC. Cheating under the Circumstances in Marital Relationships: The Development and Examination of the Propensity towards Infidelity Scale. Social Sciences. 2021; 10(10):392. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100392
Chicago/Turabian StyleLișman, Carmen Gabriela, and Andrei Corneliu Holman. 2021. "Cheating under the Circumstances in Marital Relationships: The Development and Examination of the Propensity towards Infidelity Scale" Social Sciences 10, no. 10: 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100392
APA StyleLișman, C. G., & Holman, A. C. (2021). Cheating under the Circumstances in Marital Relationships: The Development and Examination of the Propensity towards Infidelity Scale. Social Sciences, 10(10), 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100392