Upset Over Sexual versus Emotional Infidelity Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Adults
Autor: | Melissa R. Fales, David A. Frederick |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male media_common.quotation_subject Sexual Behavior Emotions Jealousy 050109 social psychology 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Interpersonal relationship Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Relationship Type Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Interpersonal Relations Falling in love Marriage Heterosexuality General Psychology media_common Aged 05 social sciences Homosexuality Female Evolutionary psychology Love Sexual Partners Sexual orientation Bisexuality Female Lesbian Psychology Psychological Theory |
Zdroj: | Archives of sexual behavior. 45(1) |
ISSN: | 1573-2800 |
Popis: | One hypothesis derived from evolutionary perspectives is that men are more upset than women by sexual infidelity and women are more upset than men by emotional infidelity. The proposed explanation is that men, in contrast to women, face the risk of unwittingly investing in genetically unrelated offspring. Most studies, however, have relied on small college or community samples of heterosexual participants. We examined upset over sexual versus emotional jealousy among 63,894 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual participants. Participants imagined which would upset them more: their partners having sex with someone else (but not falling in love with them) or their partners falling in love with someone else (but not having sex with them). Consistent with this evolutionary perspective, heterosexual men were more likely than heterosexual women to be upset by sexual infidelity (54 vs. 35 %) and less likely than heterosexual women to be upset by emotional infidelity (46 vs. 65 %). This gender difference emerged across age groups, income levels, history of being cheated on, history of being unfaithful, relationship type, and length. The gender difference, however, was limited to heterosexual participants. Bisexual men and women did not differ significantly from each other in upset over sexual infidelity (30 vs. 27 %), regardless of whether they were currently dating a man (35 vs. 29 %) or woman (28 vs. 20 %). Gay men and lesbian women also did not differ (32 vs. 34 %). The findings present strong evidence that a gender difference exists in a broad sample of U.S. adults, but only among heterosexuals. |
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