Attachment Insecurity and Infidelity in Marriage: Do Studies of Dating
Relationships Really Inform Us about Marriage?
   studies of 207 newlywed marriages demonstrated that own and partner
   psychological traits and processes for marriage.
   Keywords: Adult attachment, Infidelity, Marriage, Romantic
   marriage. Most notably, although attachment processes may operate
   differently in marriage than in dating relationships, only 3 of the 10
   of those who commit infidelity in marriage may be different than the
   highly committed relationships like marriage. In contrast, Bogaert and
   marriage. Although newlyweds may tend to perpetrate infidelity less
   than are couples in more-established marriages on variables other than
   the effects of attachment on infidelity in marriage versus dating
   marriage licenses in counties near the studies' locations. Couples who
   six times and spanned the first 3.5 years of marriage in Study 1 and
   the first 4.5 years of marriage in Study 2. Participants in Study 1
   that include more-established marriages. Four of these infidelities
   studies using the Quality Marriage Index (QMI; Norton, 1983). The QMI
   agreement with general statements about their marriage. Sample items
   include "we have a good marriage" and "my relationship with my partner
   attachment was unrelated to infidelity in these studies of marriage.
   likely to engage in infidelity in these marriages. Further, a
   marriage. Further, partner attachment avoidance was negatively
   the marriage, marital satisfaction, and personality.
   used when generalizing these findings to lengthier marriages. Given the
   examining whether they also differ across couples in marriages of
   understanding of marriage and vice versa.
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