Emotional Infidelity And Gender Analysis

There are many ways in which infidelity can be explained depending on what you are reading or with whom you are speaking. Emotional and sexual infidelity is the two most studied forms of infidelity. The cognitive approach to infidelity explains that as our cognition is developing, we are also indirectly learning behaviors that could contribute to infidelity as adults. Infidelity no matter what the circumstances are surrounding it can leave both partners devastated. The circumstances surrounding infidelity can include a broad range excuses. The evolutionary approach to infidelity explains that men are more distressed by their partners committing sexual infidelity, whereas

Arnocky, S., Sunderani, S., Gomes, W., & Vaillancourt, T. (2015). Anticipated partner infidelity and men’s intimate partner violence: The mediating role of anxiety. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 9(3), 186-196. doi:10.1037/ebs0000021

It’s a compelling time we live in where “hooking up” has become increasingly socially acceptable and typical, especially with young adults throughout many college campuses across North America. The article published online by the American Psychological Association, titled Sexual Hook-Up and written by Justin Garcia, contemplates the literature on uncommitted sexual behavior and analyzes the research on the psychological consequences. Garcia takes various studies from the previous 10 years and draws up intriguing conclusions concerning how gender discrepancies, remorse, and physical and mental health exemplify the hookup culture. Garcia, while presenting facts and studies, develops a thorough and neutral perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of a typical one-night stand.

This paper looks to achieve a better perspective of how infidelity is viewed through the lens of different cultures, and how it impacts these cultures, specifically looking at African-American, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-American cultures. The topic of cultural views on infidelity in general terms is understood as there being unfaithfulness between partners in a relationship, whether it be emotional, sexual, or a combination of both. It is for the most part a behavior frowned upon worldwide. There are many reasons why infidelity may occur within a relationship. Individuals that do not feel emotional support or feels apathetic run a greater risk for infidelity (Allen et al., 2005). Other risky attitudes include poor communication, which is made up of fewer positive and more negative interactions (Allen et al., 2008).

Infidelity is the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner. In evaluating the topic of ‘what psychological disorders do men vs. women deal with while going through infidelity,’ it is made distinctly clear that infidelity affect the two genders starkly different. It has been found through research that women widely understood in society to be more emotional, suffer from ‘anxiety and depression illnesses’ while men mainly suffer ‘anti-social disorders and disorders’ resulting from substance abuse.

In the article, Recovery From Infidelity: Differentiation of Self, Trauma, Forgiveness, and Posttraumatic Growth Among Couples in Continuing Relationships, Ashley Heintzelman, Nancy L. Murdock, Romana C. Krycak, and Larissa Seay (2014) discuss their interest in studying couples that decide to remain in a romantic relationship after sexual infidelity occurs. Infidelity is one of the most difficult issues couples can face. There are many negative consequences of infidelity and it is also known as the most common reason for divorce. It was also noted in the article, that a couple who seeks professional therapy treatments are able to experience happiness again and that despite all the negative affects are able to be a fully functioning couple again.

We know temptation are everywhere in this sinful world and awareness is one of the important lessons prevent and take steps necessary guard ourselves and those around us. Before reading this book, I was not aware of those factors or thought about them as “close calls “to sexual infidelity but now I do. Awareness is everything in preventing what could affect us and those that are around us

Intimate connections are founded on trust. Trust is really the start of terrific connections. Once you learn how to trust, you can begin learning how to love. Your feelings of security is influenced by just how much you have confidence in the person that you are with. You can only choose to spend your entire life with a person that you truly believe in. Destroying trust is actually one of the things that extramarital affairs can do very quickly. One of the most agonizing human experiences is being betrayed by the individual that you believe in the most. For anyone who is intent on rebuilding a relationship devastated by infidelity, you need to first figure out how to repair trust.

For thousands of years humainty has had relationships with eachother, millions and millions of men and women have had realtionships with eachother, some even marry, some even have a long term relation ship and dont marry.

Among individuals who are currently dating presented in this study. This tested the hypothesis regarding the beliefs about infidelity in dating relationships reflect pluralistic ignorance, a misperception in which people mistakenly believe that their own personal attitudes and behavior differ from others' when they do not. Consistent with pluralistic ignorance findings in other domains, undergraduates reported that the average university student (a) saw dating infidelity as more acceptable and (b) engaged in unfaithful acts more frequently than they themselves did. Neither type of infidelity (sexual, emotional, both sexual and emotional, or unspecified; Study 1, N = 176) nor motivated reasoning (i.e., defensiveness; Study 2, N = 359) moderated

Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is used to reports sexual behavior and functioning, psychological functioning and personality variables, and substance and its relation to the victim. MANOVA was used to compared and divide victimization group into rape, sexual coercion, and nonvictimization. Finding suggested that rape and sexual coercion victims reported higher levels od sexual concern and distress, as well as sexual shame and sexual dysfunction comparing to the non-victims group. A similar pattern of sexual behavior shows that both rape and coercion victims tend to have more partners than non-victims and illustrate higher rates of dysfunctional sexual behavior. The study shows no much different from sexual variables

The assigned article for this week's article summary assignment is titled "Research on jealousy: Impact of sexual vs. emotional infidelity". The author of this paper is Sheri Ledbetter, for Chapman University. The article was originally published on 07 Jan 15, and may be accessed at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150107151100.htm

This study designed to measure of the sexual aggression using the self report measures. This study was designed to compare rates of self reported sexual aggression perpetration among college freshman males obtained using two different measures and a version of the Sexual Experiences Survey and the Sexual Strategies Scale.

Sexual infidelity is an issue most couples don’t like to thinks about when they are considering marriage. 85 percent of adults marry in their life-times. 94 percent expect to marry their soul-mate and maintain a life-long, monogamous relationship until death. Unfortunately 40% of men and women who divorce report having been unfaithful during their marriage (Gordon, Baucom and Synder, 2008). Infidelity can evoke feelings of anger, resentment, fear and hurt to the wronged partner and guilt, shame and self-doubt in the perpetrator. This paper will examine the components, possible motivations, risk factors and treatment for sexual infidelity in committed couples.

The number of affairs was chosen to be the dependent variable. The alternative option to this choice is using a binary independent variable, “if women had at least one affair”. Number of affairs is preferred because, firstly, it is a more comprehensive measure of both genders whereas “if women had at least one affair” accounts for female only; and secondly, of all the responses received, only 31.5% of the participants have engaged in an extramarital affair. By using number of affairs, more information can be reviewed with reduced sample size.