Emotional and Sexual Facebook Communication Habits of Married Men with the Opposite Sex: The Damaging Marital Effects of Facebook Cyberinfidelity
The landscape of marital infidelity has quickly changed. With the advent of social media such as Facebook, many seeking extramarital affairs are doing so with ease. This is a concern for the sanctity many marriage relationships strive to uphold. This study implemented in-depth interviews with marrie...
| Published in: | Journal of psychology and christianity |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| In: |
Journal of psychology and christianity
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Husband
/ Facebook
/ Communication
/ Sexuality
/ Adultery
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Man-woman relationships
B Intimacy (Psychology) B Human Sexuality B same-sex relationships B Interpersonal Relations |
| Summary: | The landscape of marital infidelity has quickly changed. With the advent of social media such as Facebook, many seeking extramarital affairs are doing so with ease. This is a concern for the sanctity many marriage relationships strive to uphold. This study implemented in-depth interviews with married men who exchanged extramarital private Facebook messages with the opposite sex. Findings indicate when emotional and/or sexual content is exchanged by married men with individuals of the opposite sex on Facebook, and that communication is revealed to spouses of married men, a loss of marital trust is incurred on the marital relationship, oftentimes resulting in separation or divorce. Additionally, emotional and/or sexual communication exchanged with the opposite sex through Facebook is labeled as cyberinfidelity by victim-spouses; that is, it is considered to hold equal marital conflict implications as in-person infidelity. |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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