Psychology, Murray State University.
Department of Psychological Sciences, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.
J Sex Res. 2021 Feb;58(2):170-182. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1746954. Epub 2020 Apr 6.
The current study examined relationships between sociosexual constructs and motivations for infidelity in a currently cheating sample. Members of the AshleyMadison.com website who were actively using the website to search for and/or engage in infidelity completed a brief anonymous online survey. Our findings supported previous research regarding emotional and sexual motivations for infidelity. However, we also found that various individual differences were connected to each type of motive. For example, sexual motivations for infidelity were best predicted by being male, having an unrestricted sociosexual orientation, experiencing less sex guilt, having greater Christian identification, and being less satisfied with the primary partner. Importantly, these were not the same patterns for each type of motivation (e.g., anger). Finally, participants' satisfaction with their secondary (i.e., infidelity) partners was not consistently predicted by the motivations for infidelity. This suggests that an individual-differences approach to predicting issues related to infidelity is an important approach for future research.
本研究考察了性行为观念与不忠动机之间的关系，研究对象为正在出轨的人群。本研究通过阿什利·麦迪逊（AshleyMadison.com）网站的会员完成了一项简短的匿名在线调查，这些会员正在积极使用该网站寻找和/或进行出轨行为。我们的研究结果支持了之前关于不忠的情感和性动机的研究。然而，我们也发现，各种个体差异与每种动机都有关联。例如，不忠的性动机与男性、社会开放性倾向、较少的性内疚感、更大的基督教认同以及对主要伴侣的满意度较低有关。重要的是，每种动机的预测模式并不相同（例如愤怒）。最后，参与者对其次要（即出轨）伴侣的满意度并不总是与不忠动机相关。这表明，采用个体差异方法预测与不忠相关的问题是未来研究的一个重要方法。
