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Sex Differences in Response to Sexual and Emotional Infidelity Among Spanish and Chilean Students

Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

Juan Carlos Sierra

Ihab Zubeidat

Universidad de Granada, Spain

Pablo Vera-Villarroel

Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

This study evaluates sex differences in response to sexual and emotional infidelity in two Spanish-speaking samples. An extension of previous findings with Anglo, European, and Asian students leads to the prediction that men report being more distressed by sexual than by emotional infidelity, and women report the reverse. Five hundred and eleven students from Spain and Chile respond to a questionnaire consisting of forced-choice-scenarios. Significant sex differences in jealousy as a function of type of infidelity emerges and this is consistent with previous research on jealousy.

Key Words: evolutionary psychology • jealousy • sexual infidelity • emotional infidelity • forced-choice methodology

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 37, No. 4, 359-365 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022106288474


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