Relationship between Religious Commitment and Other Factors Related To Tendency toward Extra-Marital Affairs among Married Students

xtra-marital affairs in contemporary societies is among the most common phenomena that is growing in prevalence and is the most common issues leading to treatment-seeking behavior among couples (1,2). Extra-marital affairs are relationships outside the realm of marriage, in which a romantic or illegal relationship or love affair with the opposite sex is established (3). In addition, extra-marital affair is a phenomenon often associated with the satisfaction of one's emotional or sexual needs through relationships outside marital relations. This type of relationship is not necessarily a simple sex, but the basis of these kinds of relationships is secrecy (4). In extra-marital affairs, therapists emphasize on the two concepts of infidelity and betrayal. Infidelity denotes all behaviors and practices of a married person with the opposite sex outside the realm of family, insofar as it leads to a friendly, close, emotional, and romantic connection, in such a way that the relationship excites certain emotions in the individual. Betrayal involves sexual intercourse of a married person with the opposite outside the realm of marriage (other than the spouse) (5). Several international studies have been carried out on extra-marital affairs, and various factors have been proposed to be at play in this regard. The following are among the most important studies performed on this issue. Giesen and Treas showed that those with more open attitudes toward extra-marital affairs are more E Abstract