PREDICTING WOMEN’S SOCIAL MEDIA INFIDELITY: FACEBOOK ADDICTION, RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION, AND MORAL DISENGAGEMENT

• Authors: Maftei Alexandra , Solomon Alexandra Mihaela , Holman Andrei Corneliu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The current research explored the predictive power of an adapted version of the Moral Disengagement Scale, focused exclusively on online behaviours, along with age, relationship length and type (i.e., close or long-distance), Facebook addiction, and relationship satisfaction. Our sample consisted of 111 young heterosexual Romanian women aged 18 to 36 (M = 20.64, SD = 3.27). Hierarchical regression analysis suggested that the most important predictor of social media infidelity was Facebook addiction. None of the other considered predictors were significant in our final prediction model. However, a significant negative association emerged between social media infidelity and relationship satisfaction, suggesting that low relationship satisfaction might be a fertile ground for infidelity and social media addiction. Our model accounted for 18.3% of the variance in women’s social media infidelity. Results are discussed considering self-justification mechanisms and self-serving attributions to infidelity.

Keywords

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WOMEN; SOCIAL MEDIA INFIDELITY; FACEBOOK; ROMANIA

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 173 - 187

Contributors

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Maftei Alexandra

• Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, 3 Toma Cozma Street, Romania

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-8794

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Solomon Alexandra Mihaela

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Holman Andrei Corneliu

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9309-3821

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sp.2022.02.846