The Relationship Between Personality and Infidelity Among Millennials

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Study seeks to find out the relationship between personality types and attitudes towards infidelity among millenials.
Hypothesis: Personality affected attitudes towards infidelity.
Independent Variables (IDVs): Age and personality types.
Dependent Variable (DVs): Attitude towards infidelity.

Introduction

Participants:
- Questionnaires were randomly distributed to a group of 50 respondents (31 males and 19 females).
- Data was collected using the survey method because of its capability to measure psychological constructs that are not easily quantifiable (Greve & Thomsen 2016).
- Only millenials who were between the ages of 23 and 38 (Dimock 2019) participated in the study.
Measures:
- Attitude towards infidelity was measured using the attitude towards infidelity scale, which has 5 indicators that range between “strongly agree” and “strongly disagree”.
- Hexaco model of personality measured the respondent’s personality in terms of agreeableness, openness to experience, extroversion, emotion, conscientiousness and honesty-humility.
- Age was determined from the demographic section of the questionnaire.

Methods

Responses on the extraversion scale correlated significantly with infidelity r=0.987 (p < 0.001).
No significant correlation observed between low tolerance for infidelity and conscientiousness r=0.215 (p < 0.001).
No significant correlation observed between honesty-humility and infidelity r=0.289 (p < 0.001).
No sex differences were observed.
Responses on the “openness to experience” scale had a significant correlation with infidelity r=0.887 (p < 0.001).

Results

Personality types affect attitude towards infidelity.
Extraversion was a strong indicators of infidelity.
No significant correlation observed between low tolerance for infidelity, conscientiousness and attitudes towards infidelity.
Findings support attachment theory, which says that people’s attitudes towards infidelity are predicated on their level of emotional attachment towards partners.
Findings contradict attribution theory, which presupposes that the level of control exercised by partners affects their attitudes towards infidelity.
Explanations for the findings should be investigated.

Conclusion