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A Contextual Perspective on Associations Between Reported Parental Infidelity and Relational Ethics of the Adult Children
Author(s) -
Kawar Codina,
Coppola Jennifer,
Gangamma Rashmi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12331
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , psychology , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , social psychology , communication , computer science , artificial intelligence
This study's aim was to apply a Contextual theory lens on exploring whether knowledge of parental infidelity affects the Relational Ethics ( RE ) of adult children. The Relational Ethics Scale ( RES ) was used to capture horizontal (partner) and vertical (family of origin) relational ethics in a clinical sample of 195 participants. A repeated measures ANOVA tested the differences in RES scores among the participants who reported knowledge of parental infidelity and the participants who did not. Results showed that knowledge of parental infidelity is significantly associated with lower scores on the RES , which indicates problematic relationships, both in partners and with family of origin. Clinical implications on how parental infidelity can affect relational ethics are discussed.