NDLI: Sexual Narcissism and Infidelity in Early Marriage

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	McNulty, James K. Widman, Laura
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	There is theoretical reason to believe that narcissism is associated with infidelity. Yet, studies that have examined this association have yielded inconsistent results. Given that these inconsistencies may have emerged because prior studies used global assessments of narcissism that do not capture the extent to which the components of narcissism are activated in the sexual domain, the current research drew from two longitudinal studies of 123 married couples to examine the extent to which sexual narcissism predicted marital infidelity. Consistent with the idea that narcissism predicts sexual behavior when activated in the sexual domain, own sexual narcissism was positively associated with infidelity, controlling for own marital and sexual satisfaction, own globally-assessed narcissism, partner globally-assessed narcissism, and partner sexual narcissism. Helping to explain why this association emerged, further analyses demonstrated that it was driven by all four facets of sexual narcissism—sexual exploitation, grandiose sense of sexual skill, sexual entitlement (Study 1 only), and lack of sexual empathy (husbands only). Additionally, although partner sexual narcissism was unrelated to infidelity on average, partners’ grandiose sense of sexual skill and partners’ sexual entitlement (Study 2 only) were positively associated with infidelity, and partners’ lack of sexual empathy was negatively associated with infidelity (Study 2 only). These findings highlight the benefits of using domain-specific measures of sexual narcissism in research on sexual behavior and the benefits of using domain-specific measures of personality more generally.
Starting Page	1315
Ending Page	1325
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00040002
Journal	Archives of Sexual Behavior
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	7
e-ISSN	15732800
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-04-03
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Sexual narcissism Narcissism Infidelity Personality Marriage Sexual Behavior Public Health Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Psychology

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