The marital infidelity as a spokesperson for relational complexity: literature review

Authors

  • Maressa Andrade da Costa Universidade Federal do Amazonas
  • Patrícia de Oliveira Flores
  • Rodrigo Serrão de Farias
  • Stiffanny Alexa Saraiva Bezerra
  • Camila de Souza Borba
  • Nazaré Maria de Albuquerque Hayasida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/sdh.v6i1.4074

Keywords:

Marital infidelity, Betrayal, Relationship

Abstract

Introduction: Marital infidelity is a complex and subjective phenomenon, associated with multifactorial causality. For this, there is no consensus as to its definition, which can be represented as breaking any commitment to monogamy, which engages in sexual, affective and emotional extra-relational behaviors and their impacts on the dynamics of the couple leave indelible marks, which are compared, by some authors, as a deadly wound.

Objective: To review the literature on infidelity in the dynamics of the marital relationship.

Method: Review the literature on articles searched in PubMed, SciELO, LILACS and PePSIC databases, from 2007 to 2017, using the terms “Infidelidade, Infidelity, Infidelidad or/ou/o Traição, Betrayal, Traición”.

Results and conclusions: There are five recurrent themes in the 22 filtered articles: explanatory-comprehensive; infidelity and risk behavior for HIV / AIDS virus contamination; infidelity and domestic violence against women; review of national literature on the subject; and intervention in the context of couples with a history of marriage infidelity. From the analysis carried out, it is observed that infidelity does not end in itself, and to understand it, an investigation is necessary that is not only focused on the intrapsychic factors, or on sociocultural factors.

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Published

2018-03-01

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Artigos de Revisão

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