Dark tetrad, commitment uncertainty, loneliness and extra dyadic relationhsips among married individuals
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2024
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
The present study explored the relationship between dark tetrad, commitment uncertainty,
loneliness and extra dyadic relationships among married individuals also the mediating role
of commitment uncertainty as well as loneliness influencing the relationship between dark
tetrad and extra dyadic relationships among married individuals. It was a correlational
research design. The data were collected from 210 males and females with the age range
of 18-76 (M=35.55, SD= 11.52) being married for minimum <1 year, using google forms
by employing purposive sampling strategy. The self-constructed demographic sheet, The
Short Dark Tetrad Scale (Paulhus, 2013), Commitment Uncertainty Short Scale (Stanley
& Rhoades, 2011), Loneliness in Intimate Relationship Scale (Rokach, 2022), Internet
Infidelity Questionnaire (Nooripour et al., 2016) and Infidelity Scale (Drigotas et al., 1999)
were used for the assessment. The results of Pearson product moment correlation showed
that the dark tetrad personality, commitment uncertainty and loneliness were positively
correlated with extra dyadic relationships including internet and physical infidelity.
Further, Commitment uncertainty was found to be positively correlated with the
detachment, hurt and guilt, domains of loneliness among married individuals. The results
of multiple hierarchal regression showed that sadism positively predicted the sexual
infidelity among married individuals. Further, commitment uncertainty positively
predicted the extradyadic relationships including internet and physical infidelity.
Moreover, detachment negatively and hurt positively predicted the friendly activities,
emotional activities, sexual activities of internet infidelity as well as overall physical
infidelity among married individuals. The results of mediation through PROCESS
MACRO showed a significant mediating role of commitment uncertainty between sadism
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and extra dyadic relationships including internet and physical infidelity, as well as between
psychopathy and internet infidelity. Further, the independent sample t-test showed
significant gender differences in terms of sadism only. This present study serves a great
contribution in the field of counselling psychology by focusing especially on marital
problems and highlighting the factors that contribute to the extra dyadic relationships in
married individuals.