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Study: Who is more likely to cheat in a relationship?
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Do you suspect your spouse or partner of cheating? Well, there is now a definitive fact to discover if your suspicion is true.
According to a new study done in the American Sociological Review, spouses or partners who are dependent financially on the other are more likely to cheat. The study adds that men are also more likely to cheat than women.
In an alternate report by The Guardian, it was found that "men and women who are economically dependent on their partner are more likely to cheat, with men three times more inclined to do so. For women, those who are totally economically dependent have a 5.2% probability of cheating, compared to 3.4% for those who brought home equal income and just 1.5% for total breadwinners."
The study adds that men were actually least likely to cheat (2.9%) when they brought home 70% of the couple's pooled income. After that, there is an increase in possible infidelity with men who are the sole earners having a 4% chance of cheating. "These men are aware that their wives are truly dependent and may think that, as a result, their wives will not leave them even if they cheat," University of Connecticut professor, and study researcher, Christin Munsch said to The Wall Street Journal.
Munsch came to this conclusion by surveying 2,757 straight people in the same relationship for at least a year as gathered by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth between 2001 and 2011. The average age of the members of the couples that were surveyed were between 18 and 32.
Read more at the American Sociological Review, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.
