Huang Qianying, Wang Xijing, Teng Fei
Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University.
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The City University of Hong Kong.
J Sex Res. 2024 Apr 17:1-14. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2024.2338743.
Infidelity has destructive effects on romantic relationships. Several idiographic characteristics or experiences in an intimate relationship have been linked to unfaithfulness. Yet, relatively little research has been paid to investigate how sexist beliefs might sabotage relationships by incurring infidelity. The present research examined the association between men's ambivalent sexism - hostile sexism and benevolent sexism - and men's infidelity as well as women's perception of the likelihood of men's infidelity. The results showed that men's hostile sexism and benevolent sexism predicted their increased infidelity (Studies 1 and 2). In addition, the indirect association between ambivalent sexism (both hostile sexism and benevolent sexism) and infidelity was through the importance placed on power in one's intimate relationship in general (Study 2). Importantly, women were unaware of benevolently sexist men's increased infidelity, such that women rated benevolently sexist men as having a lower likelihood of engaging in infidelity than hostilely sexist men and believed benevolently sexist men's infidelity level was similar to nonsexist men (Study 3). Therefore, these findings contribute to the psychology of infidelity by revealing that ambivalent sexism, both hostile sexism and benevolent sexism, are significant predictors. Implications of the findings are discussed.
不忠行为会对浪漫关系产生破坏性影响。亲密关系中的一些独特特征或经历与不忠行为有关联。然而，相对较少的研究关注性别歧视观念如何通过引发不忠行为来破坏关系。本研究考察了男性的矛盾性别歧视——敌意性别歧视和善意性别歧视——与男性的不忠行为以及女性对男性不忠可能性的认知之间的关联。结果表明，男性的敌意性别歧视和善意性别歧视预示着他们不忠行为的增加（研究1和研究2）。此外，矛盾性别歧视（包括敌意性别歧视和善意性别歧视）与不忠行为之间的间接关联是通过总体上对亲密关系中权力的重视程度来实现的（研究2）。重要的是，女性并未意识到善意性别歧视的男性不忠行为增加，以至于女性认为善意性别歧视的男性比敌意性别歧视的男性有更低的不忠可能性，并且认为善意性别歧视的男性的不忠程度与非性别歧视的男性相似（研究3）。因此，这些发现通过揭示矛盾性别歧视，即敌意性别歧视和善意性别歧视，是重要的预测因素，为不忠行为心理学做出了贡献。研究结果的意义也进行了讨论。
