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Ranking Factors that Cause Married Women’s Extramarital Relationship, Designing a Model
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Elahe Mehdi   , Farinaz Faridirad |
| Master of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran |
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causes and sociological analysis of married women’s extramarital relationship. The present study has been applied in terms of purpose and mixed method type. The qualitative part was based on thematic analysis which was performed on data obtained through a semi-structured and in-depth interview with 34 married women of Tehran who had experience of extramarital relationships. The sample size was determined based on the theoretical saturation and sampling has been completed through a purposive sampling method. The quantitative part was based on structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population in the quantitative part of the present study is all experts’ members of this field, 300 of whom were selected by convenience sampling method. The participants responded to researcher-made questionnaire containing 76 items whose reliability was 0.742 based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient and 0.735 based on composite reliability coefficient. Data analysis was done using smart PLS 3.2 software and the significance level of all tests was considered 0.05. The findings show that the conceptual framework for desire and occurrence causes of extramarital affairs consists of 523 basic themes, 70 descriptive themes, 19 interpretive themes and 3 overarching themes. The model had an acceptable fitting for the purpose which was based on GOF=0.832 indices. The results show that extramarital relationships have penetrated among married women as one of the silent social harms that have irreparable and undeniable consequences, the attention of researchers and policymakers in the field of marriage and family to the causes of the tendency and occurrence of this phenomenon can be solved through its elimination. Strengthening the inhibiting factors and their working environment will reduce the possibility of tending to extra-marital relationships and provide the basis for the stability of the couple system and the family institution. Therefore, it is recommended to psychologists, counselors, therapists, and social workers to pay attention to the causes of women's tendency to have extramarital relationships in order to prevent and resolve it, as well as educate families and enrich premarital relationships. |
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| Keywords: Extramarital Relationship, Married Women, Qualitative Investigating, Ranking Factors and Designing a Model, Sociological Analysis |
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Received: 2024/04/24 | Accepted: 2024/09/16 | Published: 2025/05/25
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