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Whitty, Monica T. and Quigley, Laura-Lee (2008) Emotional and sexual infidelity offline and in cyberspace. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 34 (4). pp. 461-468. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00088.x ISSN 0194-472X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00088.x
Abstract
This study investigated how men and women perceive online and offline sexual and emotional infidelity. Undergraduates from a large university in Northern Ireland participated in the study. It was found that men, when forced to decide, were more upset by sexual infidelity and women by emotional. It was also found that men were more likely to believe that women have sex when in love and that women believe that men have sex even when they are not in love. It was not, however, found that either men or women believed that having cybersex implied the other was also in love or that being in love online implied they were having cybersex. These results are explained through a social cognitive lens.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Computer sex, Adultery | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Marital and Family Therapy | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 0194-472X | ||||
Official Date: | October 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||
Number: | 4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 461-468 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00088.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 December 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 December 2016 |
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