Sexual infidelity among the married in China

IF 1.4 4区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

社会 Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI:10.1177/2057150X221108574

Weixiang Luo, Jia Yu

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Sexual infidelity in China has undergone a rapid increase in recent decades. Despite much speculation, social forces that help to prompt such increase have yet to be identified. Drawing on data from the Chinese Private Life Survey, coupled with the perspectives of attitudinal and institutional changes, we examine social determinants of marital infidelity that may reveal potential mechanisms of its diffusion. We find that more liberal attitudes toward extramarital sex, greater sexual dissatisfaction, and lower marital satisfaction were all positively associated with the likelihood of marital infidelity. Results also show that institutional factors such as personal income, living apart from one's spouse, and urbanity influenced the practice of extramarital sex. Taken as a whole, both attitudinal changes toward sex, love and marriage, and institutional changes as a result of social transformation may play a role in determining the rise of sexual infidelity in China.

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中国已婚人士的性不忠现象

近几十年来，中国的性不忠现象迅速增加。尽管有很多猜测，但帮助推动这种增长的社会力量尚未被确定。根据中国私人生活调查的数据，结合态度和制度变化的视角，我们研究了婚姻不忠的社会决定因素，可能揭示其扩散的潜在机制。我们发现，对婚外性行为的态度越开明，对性行为的不满程度越高，对婚姻的满意度越低，这些都与婚姻不忠的可能性呈正相关。研究结果还表明，个人收入、与配偶分居、都市化等制度因素也会影响婚外性行为。从整体上看，对性、爱情和婚姻的态度变化，以及社会转型导致的制度变化，都可能是导致中国性不忠现象上升的原因。

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社会 Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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1.70

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6799

期刊介绍： The Chinese Journal of Sociology is a peer reviewed, international journal with the following standards: 1. The purpose of the Journal is to publish (in the English language) articles, reviews and scholarly comment which have been judged worthy of publication by appropriate specialists and accepted by the University on studies relating to sociology. 2. The Journal will be international in the sense that it will seek, wherever possible, to publish material from authors with an international reputation and articles that are of interest to an international audience. 3. In pursuit of the above the journal shall: (i) draw on and include high quality work from the international community . The Journal shall include work representing the major areas of interest in sociology. (ii) avoid bias in favour of the interests of particular schools or directions of research or particular political or narrow disciplinary objectives to the exclusion of others; (iii) ensure that articles are written in a terminology and style which makes them intelligible, not merely within the context of a particular discipline or abstract mode, but across the domain of relevant disciplines.