Gender-Typical Responses to Sexual and Emotional Infidelity as A Function of Mortality Salience Induced Self-Esteem Striving  

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Solomon, Sheldon ; Pyszczynski, Tom ; Greenberg, Jeff ; Goldenberg, Jamie L. ; Dunnam, Heather ; Cox, Cathy R. ; Landau, Mark J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 29 no. 12 (2003), page 1585-1595.
Topik: self-esteem; terror management theory; gender - differentiated jealousy; evolution; self - esteem
Fulltext: 1585PSPB2912.pdf (118.38KB)

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The authors propose that gender - differentiated patterns of jealousy in response to sexual and emotional infidelity are engendered by the differential impact of each event on self-esteem for men and women. Study 1 demonstrated that men derive relatively more self - esteem from their sexlives, whereas women’s self - esteem is more contingent on romantic commitment. Based on terror management theory, it is predicted that if gender - differentiated responses to infidelity are motivated by gender-specific contingencies for self - esteem, they should be intensified following reminders of mortality. In Study 2, mortality salience (MS) increased distress in response to sexual infidelity for men and emotional infidelity for women. Study 3 demonstrated that following MS, men who place high value on sexin romantic relationships exhibited greater distress in response to sexual infidelity, but low - ex - value men’s distress was attenuated. The authors discuss the implications for evolutionary and self - esteem - based accounts of jealousy as well as possible integration of these perspectives.

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