Permission-Giving and Marital Infidelity
| Autor: | Angel Herring, Michelle M. Jeanfreau, Anthony P. Jurich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Self-justification
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Coding (therapy) 050109 social psychology Compartmentalization (information security) Permission Rationalization (economics) Developmental psychology 050902 family studies Loyalty Cognitive dissonance 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Psychology Social psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Qualitative research media_common |
| Zdroj: | Marriage & Family Review. 52:535-547 |
| ISSN: | 1540-9635 0149-4929 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01494929.2015.1124354 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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