Predicting desire to betrayal based on romance jealous and sensation seeking in married women

Desire to infidelity refers to a wide range of non-relationship behaviors that concluded to in breach of commitment and trust in marital relationships. Sensation seeking and romance jealous can be accompanied by immoral behaviors, including desire to infidelity. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive role of romance jealous and sensation seeking on desire to betrayal among married women.
The statistical population of this descriptive correlational survey included all married women in Isfahan city in year 2017-2018. 150 married women selected through convenient method. The participants responded to desire to betrayal scale, Multiple Jealousy Scale and sensation seeking Scale. Data were analyzed using multiple regression by stepwise method.
The results showed that among the components of romance jealous (cognitive jealousy, emotional jealousy and behavioral jealousy), and sensation seeking (diversity and excitement intensity), romance jealous (total), diversity and behavioral jealousy had the highest contribution to emotional and sexual issues and anger of desire to betrayal. Also variable of cognitive jealousy is the best predictor for dissatisfaction of desire to betrayal. Regarding desire to betrayal (total), romance jealous (total), behavioral jealousy and diversity had the highest prediction power respectively.
Overall, it is obvious that desire to betrayal in married women can be explained based on romance jealous and sensation seeking.