Predicting the Tendency to Have Extramarital Relationships Through the Absence of Marriage and Intimacy in Married Women

The purpose of the present study was to predict the tendency to extramarital relationships through the lack of marital commitment and intimacy in married women. In terms of its nature and objectives, this research is applied and the correlation method was used for its implementation. The statistical population of this research was all the married women of Shiraz city in 1401 and 150 people were selected as a sample using the purposeful sampling method.

To collect data, questionnaires of tendency towards extramarital relationships, marital commitment and intimacy were used, whose validity and reliability have been confirmed.

The results showed that there is an inverse and significant relationship between marital commitment and the tendency to have extramarital relationships, and there was also an inverse and significant relationship between intimacy and the tendency to have extramarital relationships.