Investigating the mediating role of sexual satisfaction in the relationship between sexual self-esteem and marital infidelity in married women and men
Subject Areas : Psychology
Faezeh Hashemi
1
,
Fatemeh Hashemi
2
,
Alireza Alizadeh
3
,
Iman Hashemi
4
*
,
mohammad Ebadirad
5
1 - Master of Science, Department of psychology, Faculty of psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran.
2 - Master of Science, Department of Counselling, Faculty of psychology, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Master of Science, Department of psychology, Faculty of psychology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran
4 - Master of Science, Department of psychology, Faculty of psychology, Torbat-e-Jam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e-Jam, Iran.
5 - Counseling group, Department of Educational Sciences & Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Sexual self-esteem, sexual satisfaction, marital infidelity,
Abstract :
Marital infidelity is one of the most important and perhaps the most important damage that threatens the family as the oldest and most important social institution. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between sexual self-esteem and marital infidelity, as well as the mediating role of sexual satisfaction in the relationship between sexual self-esteem and marital infidelity. This study is based on the fundamental purpose and on the descriptive-correlation method of structural equations. The statistical population consisted of married men and women in Mashhad, and 330 of them were selected by convenience sampling and were included in the sample group. The required information was collected through three sexual self-esteem questionnaires by Basel and Rostahl (1996), the Hudson-Harrison and Kruscup (1998) sexual satisfaction scale, and the marital infidelity questionnaire by Yenisari and Kokdemir (2006). The findings of the research indicated that sexual self-esteem can directly and significantly (p≤0.05) as well as through sexual satisfaction indirectly and significantly (p≤0.05) be able to predict marital infidelity. These results also indicated that sexual satisfaction can directly and significantly (p≤0.05) predict marital infidelity. The findings of this research emphasize the importance of paying attention to sexual self-esteem and its role in the quality of marital relationships in addition to sexual satisfaction, and provide implications for how couples tend to commit marital infidelity.
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