Investigation on the Reasons and Backgrounds of Women's Extramarital Relations from Men's Perspective: A Grounded Theory

Document Type : Grounded Theory

Authors

1 M. A in general psychology, Yazd University. Yazd. Iran.

2 Associate professor, Department of psychology. Yazd University. Yazd, Iran

Abstract

Community health depends on family health. One of the harms that can shake the foundation of a family is extramarital affairs. Due to the importance of the issue of infidelity and lack of research in the field of relationships outside the framework of women, the present study was conducted with the aim of discovering the causes and contexts of women's transnational relationships from the point of view of injured men. The research environment included the betrayed men of Yazd province. The method of qualitative research and its strategy was the data of the foundation. Twelve people were selected using targeted, theoretical sampling and snowball sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using three stages of open, central and selective coding. Finally, 46 concepts, 14 sub-categories and 4 main categories were extracted. The main categories included "distancing" between men and women, "risky interactions", how couples interact with each other, "personality traits", including some characteristics of women, and "emotional / sexual dissatisfaction". The results showed that recognizing and understanding the contexts and causes of women's propensity for extramarital affairs could prevent such harm from occurring in future marital relationships. Therefore, counselors and psychologists can take steps to strengthen the foundation of the family by discovering the context and causes.

Keywords

References

Adamopoulou, E. (2013). New facts on infidelity. Economics Letters, 121(3), 458-462. [link]
Allen, E. S., Rhoades, G. K., Stanley, S. M., Markman, H. J., Williams, T., Melton, J., & Clements, M. L. (2008). Premarital precursors of marital infidelity. Family process, 47(2), 243-259. [link]
Bagarozzi Sr, D. A. (2007). Understanding and treating marital infidelity: A multidimensional model. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 36(1), 1-17. [link]
Blow, A. J., & Hartnett, K. (2005). Infidelity in committed relationships I: A methodological review. Journal of marital and family therapy, 31(2), 183-216. [link]
Brown, E. M. (2013). Patterns of infidelity and their treatment: Routledge. [link]
Campbell, A. M. (2009). How selected personality factors affect the relationships between marital satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and infidelity. [link]
Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis: sage. [link]
Edjtehadi, M., & Vahedi, G. (2016). Sociological study of the potential of infidelity in marital relations and its effective factors among public and private sector employees. Iranian Socioligical Associoation, 17(4), 105-138. [link]
Ein-Dor, T., Perry-Paldi, A., Hirschberger, G., Birnbaum, G. E., & Deutsch, D. (2015). Coping with mate poaching: Gender differences in detection of infidelity-related threats. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(1), 17-24. [link]
Fathi, M. (2017). Comparing the causes of infidelity in marital relationships among men and women: A qualitative research. Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Sciences, 5(4), 401-418. [link]
Fathi, M., Fekazad, H., Ghaffary, G., & Bolhari, J. (2014). Recognizing the fundamental factors of married men engaged in marital infidelity. Social Welfare Quarterly, 13(51), 109-131. [link]
Fisher, T. D. (2007). Sex of experimenter and social norm effects on reports of sexual behavior in young men and women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36(1), 89-100. [link]
Glasser, W., & Glasser, C. (2010). Getting together and staying together: Solving the mystery of marriage: Harper Collins. [link]
Guitar, A. E., Geher, G., Kruger, D. J., Garcia, J. R., Fisher, M. L., & Fitzgerald, C. J. (2017). Defining and distinguishing sexual and emotional infidelity. Current Psychology, 36(3), 434-446. [link]
HABIBI, A. M., & Hajiheydari, Z. (2015). A qualitative study for investigating the reasons of sexual infidelity of couples who have asked for divorce in family court. [link]
Harley, W. F., & Chalmers, J. H. (2013). Surviving an affair: Revell. [link]
Iman, M. (2012). Methodology of Qualitative Research: Qom: Research Institute of Hawzah and University [in Persian]. [link]
Jones, D. N., & Weiser, D. A. (2014). Differential infidelity patterns among the Dark Triad. Personality and Individual differences, 57, 20-24. [link]
Lambert, N. M., & Dollahite, D. C. (2008). The threefold cord: Marital commitment in religious couples. Journal of Family Issues, 29(5), 592-614. [link]
Loudová, I., Janiš, K., & Haviger, J. (2013). Infidelity as a Threatening Factor to the Existence of the Family. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 106, 1462-1469. [link]
Mahmoodabadi, H. Z., Bahrami, F., Ahmadi, A., Etemadi, O., & Zadeh, M. S. F. (2012). The effectiveness of retraining attribution styles (cognitive therapy) on dimensions of family functioning in divorce applicant couples. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 4(2), 257. [link]
McDaniel, B. T., Drouin, M., & Cravens, J. D. (2017). Do you have anything to hide? Infidelity-related behaviors on social media sites and marital satisfaction. Computers in human behavior, 66, 88-95. [link]
Mohammadpur, A. (2013). Qualitative research method counter method2: The practical stages and procedures in qualitative methodology. Tehran: Sociologists Publications. [link]
Myers, J. E., Madathil, J., & Tingle, L. R. (2005). Marriage satisfaction and wellness in India and the United States: A preliminary comparison of arranged marriages and marriages of choice. Journal of Counseling & Development, 83(2), 183-190. [link]
O’Connor, J. J., Pisanski, K., Tigue, C. C., Fraccaro, P. J., & Feinberg, D. R. (2014). Perceptions of infidelity risk predict women’s preferences for low male voice pitch in short-term over long-term relationship contexts. Personality and Individual differences, 56, 73-77. [link]
Pourmovahed, Z., Mahmoodabad, S. S. M., Mahmoodabadi, H. Z., Tavangar, H., Ardekani, S. M. Y., & Vaezi, A. A. (2017). Family stability and conflict of spiritual beliefs and superstitions among Yazdi people in Iran: A qualitative study. World Family Medicine Journal: Incorporating the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine, 99(5548), 1-7. [link]
Pourmovahed, Z., Mahmoodabad, S. S. M., Mahmoodabadi, H. Z., Tavangar, H., Ardekani, S. M. Y., & Vaezi, A. A. (2018). Deficiency of self-efficacy in problem-solving as a contributory factor in family instability: A qualitative study. Iranian journal of psychiatry, 13(1), 32. [link]
Rafeie, A., Kalantari, M., Neshat Doust, H., & Hamid, O. (2017). Personal Constructs of Betrayed Spouses’ Understanding of Forgiveness. Journal of Family Research, 13(1), 131-152. [link]
Rotter, J. C. (2001). Letting go: Forgiveness in counseling. The Family Journal, 9(2), 174-177. [link]
Shackelford, T. K., LeBlanc, G. J., & Drass, E. (2000). Emotional reactions to infidelity. Cognition & Emotion, 14(5), 643-659. [link]
Shirdel, M. (2006). The tendency factors of married men and women to sexual unlawful relationship. Social Welfare Quarterly, 6(22), 133-148. [link]
Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research techniques: Sage publications Thousand Oaks, CA. [link]
Wiederman, M. W., & Allgeier, E. R. (1996). Expectations and attributions regarding extramarital sex among young married individuals. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 8(3), 21-35. [link]
Family Counseling and Psychotherapy
Volume 10, Issue 1 - Serial Number 29
February 2021
Pages 125-150

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 25 January 2020
  • Revise Date: 19 August 2020
  • Accept Date: 20 August 2020

Share

How to cite

Statistics