Permission-Giving and Marital Infidelity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11220569
AutoresMichelle M Jeanfreau, Michelle Jeanfreau (0000-0001-6539-757X, University of Southern Mississippi, autor de correspondencia), Angel Herring (University of Southern Mississippi), Anthony P Jurich (Kansas State University)
Año2016
Volumen52
Número6
Páginas535-547
Fecha de publicación2016-08-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMarriage & Family Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0149-4929 • E-ISSN: 1540-9635
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01494929.2015.1124354
OpenAlexW2402275518
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas13

The research used qualitative methods to begin exploring how individual’s decision-making enhances their risk of having a marital affair. Particularly how does a woman give herself permission to move forward with having an affair? Semistructured interviews were recorded with women who had a marital affair and then transcribed in preparation for coding. The transcendental phenomenological model was used to analyze the data collected. Sensitizing concepts were used as a base in identifying how participants were able to limit their cognitive dissonance as a way of giving themselves permission to have an affair. The results found four methods of limiting cognitive dissonance: not being worthy of loyalty, rationalization, guilt-free infidelity, and compartmentalization. Clinical implications are discussed

Coding (social sciences · Cognition · Cognitive dissonance · Epistemology · Limiting · Loyalty · Permission · Political science · Rationalization (economics · Sociology · Transcendental number · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Psychology · Social Psychology