22
Elena V. Tikhomirova
Kostroma State University
Natalia S. Shipova
Kostroma State University
Anna G. Samohvalova
Kostroma State University
Perception of potential adultery by spouses at different stages of the family life cycle
Tikhomirova E.V., Shipova N.S., Samokhvalova A.G., Perception of potential adultery by spouses at different stages of the family life cycle. Vestnik of Kostroma State University. Series: Pedagogy. Psychology. Sociokinetics, 2021, vol. 27, № 4, pp. 165-172. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34216/2073-1426-2021-27-4-165-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/2073-1426-2021-27-4-165-172
УДК: 159.9:316.6
Publish date: 2021-11-30
Annotation: The study is devoted to the poorly studied problem of ideas about potential adultery at different stages of the family life cycle. In the work, the question arises – how the features of dyadic relationships and ideas about adultery at different stages of the family life cycle correlate. It is shown that at all stages of the family's life cycle, potential betrayal is associated with negative feelings and emotions, is perceived as betrayal, disrespect, collapse of trust, is the cause of the breakdown of relations. The specificity of the perception of potential unfaithfulness at different stages of the family life cycle is determined and described – a family with a child under three years old, a family with a teenage child, a family at the stage of the "empty nest" cycle. We revealed gender differences in the perception of potential adultery by spouses at different stages of the family life cycle. It was found that the idea of adultery at different stages of the family life cycle is associated with the peculiarities of dyadic relationships (the degree of trust, style of love, satisfaction with marriage), as well as with the communicative tolerance of the personality, as a quality responsible for understanding the other and oneself in a situation of interaction, for building relationships with a partner in a constructive scenario.
Keywords: family life cycle, marital relations, infidelity, satisfaction with marriage, men, women, social perception.
Funding and acknowledgments: The study was carried out with the financial support of the State Task FZEW-2020-0005 “Close relationships and family in the living space of the challenges of our time: coping, resources, developmentˮ.
Literature list: Andreeva T.V. Semeinaia psikhologiia: uchebnoe posobie [Family Psychology: Textbook]. St. Petersburg, 2004, 244 p. (In Russ.) Ekimchik O.A., Kriukova T.L. Resursy sovladaniia so stressom v blizkikh diadicheskikh otnosheniiakh muzhchiny i zhenshchiny [Stress Management Resources in Intimate Dyadic Male-Female Relationships]. Aktual'nye problemy psikhiatrii, psikhoterapii, klinicheskoi psikhologii sem'i i detstva: organizatsiia, diagnostika, lechenie, reabilitatsiia, podgotovka spetsialistov i rabota v mul'tidistsiplinarnoi komande: materialy mezhdunar. nauch. konf. [Actual problems of psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical psychology of family and childhood: organization, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, training of specialists and work in a multidisciplinary team: materials of the international scientific conf.]. St. Petersburg, 2013, рр. 162-167. (In Russ.) Kratokhvil S. Semeinye otnosheniia [Family relationships]. Moscow, 1995, 360 p. (In Russ.) Olifirovich N.I., Zinkevich-Kuzemkina T.A., Velenta T.F. Psikhologiia semeinykh krizisov [The psychology of family crises]. St. Petersburg, 2006, 260 p. (In Russ.) Khmaruk I.N. Sotsial'no - psikhologicheskie korreliaty vybora sposoba reagirovaniia v situatsii izmeny supruga: avtoref. dis. ... kand. psikhol. nauk [Socio-psychological correlates of the choice of the method of reaction in the situation of betrayal of the spouse]. Moscow, 2000, 78 p. (In Russ.) Shipova N. S. Sovladanie s perezhivaniem izmeny v blizkikh otnosheniiakh: avtoref. dis. ... kand. psikhol.nauk [Coping with the experience of infidelity in close relationships: author. dis. ... cand. psychol. sciences]. Kostroma, 2014, 27 p. (In Russ.) Eidemiller E.G., Iustitskis V.V. Psikhologiiai psikhoterapiia sem'I [Family psychology and psychotherapy]. St. Petersburg, 2003, 651 p. (In Russ.)
Author's info: Elena V. Tikhomirova, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Kostroma State University, Kostroma, Russia, tichomirowa82@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3844-4622
Co-author's info: Natalia S. Shipova, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Kostroma State University, Kostroma, Russia, ns.shipova@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0741-1297
Co-author's info: Anna G. Samohvalova, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Kostroma State University, Kostroma, Russia, a_samohvalova@ksu.edu.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4401-053X