Social Media and Marital Infidelity

Winda Putri Diah Restya

2019

Abstract

Infidelity impacts negatively on relationship functioning and stability of the marriages making the study of this phenomenon is crucial. In spite of widespread beliefs that relationship partners should be faithful to each other, marital infidelity occurs fairly often nowadays and usually caused by the existence of social media (Kioko, 2009). Therefore, the main objective of this study is to investigate on how social media could lead someone into marital infidelity. Three primary research questions were formulated through this study which are: what causes marital infidelity through social media in the first place, how the participant define marital infidelity, and what kind of disloyalty behaviour might be generated through social media. The participants on this research were three divorced couples who were chosen by using a purposive sampling technique. While the picture of marital infidelity through social media was obtained using the qualitative research method through in-depth interview and nonparticipant observation. The result showed that the factor which drives people to become unfaithful to their partner in the very first place is because there’s a feeling of dissatisfaction and conflict in their marriage life. In addition, all research subjects agreed that the existence of social media can lead someone into marital-infidelity because it perceived less harmed. Another interesting finding on this study showed that there are some fundamental differences between male and female subjects in defining marital infidelity, while the definition of disloyalty according to women subjects refer to a very basic things men tend to judge disloyalty through social media only occurs if it involves feelings or deeper if they are willing to leave their legitimate partner for someone else.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Restya W. (2019). Social Media and Marital Infidelity.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy, ISBN 978-989-758-448-0, pages 106-111. DOI: 10.5220/0009438301060111

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpsy19,
author={Winda Putri Diah Restya},
title={Social Media and Marital Infidelity},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy,},
year={2019},
pages={106-111},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009438301060111},
isbn={978-989-758-448-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy,
TI - Social Media and Marital Infidelity
SN - 978-989-758-448-0
AU - Restya W.
PY - 2019
SP - 106
EP - 111
DO - 10.5220/0009438301060111