Chapter 11

Question 1

What is infidelity?

Answer 1

violation of a shared agreement between committed partners to share their emotional and sexual lives with each other exclusively

Question 2

What is the number one cause of divorce worldwide?

Answer 2

infidelity

Question 3

How many couples, after facing infidelity, will dissolve their unions?

Answer 3

50%

Question 4

Infidelity is not rare. Results from 50 studies and 90 000 respondents suggest that what percentage of people report EVER having been unfaithful?

Answer 4

25-30%

Question 5

Among straight men and women, gay men and lesbians, bisexual men and women, who is most likely to cheat on their partner?

Answer 5

bisexual men

Question 6

What emotion is most common with sexual infidelity? Which gender is more upset at this?

Answer 6

anger

men

Question 7

What emotion is most common with emotional infidelity? Which gender is more upset at this?

Answer 7

sadness

women

Question 8

Impact of partner finding out about infidelity is lessened when:

Answer 8

offender freely confesses rather than being aught

Question 9

Once someone cheats, will they cheat again?

Answer 9

two times greater they will cheat again. need professional treatment

Question 10

What are the steps after cheating?

Answer 10

1) crisis control (don’t make it worse)

2) understand how it happened

3) determine whether the partnership will continue or not

Question 11

What is the advocacy perspective?

Answer 11

sought to understand aggression against women

found men as primary perpetrators

methodology is important

Question 12

What is the family sociological persepctive?

Answer 12

looked at where aggression occurred more broadly

discovered equal rates of aggression between men and women - women may even perpetrate more

Question 13

What is coercive controlling violence? What gender mostly partakes in this?

Answer 13

has the goal of controlling and intimidating partner

most commonly males against females

Question 14

What is the best predictor of coercive controlling violence? What might the victim do?

Answer 14

personality traits and background of aggressor. Will happen in subsequent relationships too

victim may engage in violent resistance (weapon)

Question 15

What is situational couple violence? What gender mostly partakes in this?

Answer 15

conflict interaction that gets out of hand and turns physical

males and females equally likely to engage (may be uni or bilaterally)

Question 16

What is the best predictor of situational couple violence? Are these usually reported?

Answer 16

situational factors rather than personality (people may engage in situational couple violence in one relationship and not others)

being victimized and alcohol are biggest indicators

usually not reported (rare occurrence or stress)

Question 17

IPV is COMMON. What percentage of men and women reported engaging in some physical act of violence against their partner?

Answer 17

12.1 men

11.6 women

Question 18

IPV can exist in all relationships. In samples of newlyweds, around what percentage report some sort of physical violence?

Answer 18

50%

Question 19

High rates of violence in (blank) who went on to get married

Answer 19

premarital couples

Question 20

aggression predicts what

Answer 20

less satisfaction

Question 21

Men and women equally likely to commit IPV. Women score higher on:

Answer 21

self report scales