Poster Session 1: Assessing Family Health and Well-Being

Presenters: Yabin Tang, Jason Hans, Laura Vowels

Summary
This study was designed to test the methodological viability of employing a subjective definition of infidelity and identifying unfaithful spouses via an indirect approach. A community sample of 465 married or divorced individuals anonymously completed the survey via MTurk. More participants reported having engaged in infidelity via the indirect approach (42.9%) than the direct approach (12.7%), and more men than women acknowledged engaging in infidelity according to both the direct (16.6% vs. 9.1%) and indirect (48.2% vs. 38.0%) approaches. However, statistical differences between men and women were only found in sexual and computer-mediated forms of infidelity.

Objectives
-- To evaluate the effectiveness of the indirect approach in identify unfaithful spouses
-- To analyze the definition of infidelity
-- To address the association between gender, typology, and infidelity

Subject Codes: infidelity, gender, well-being
Population Codes: couples/coupled
Method and Approach Codes: quantitative methodology, regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical)