What’s the likelihood your spouse will cheat on you? University of Connecticut Professor, Christin Munsch attempts to answer that question through an economic lens in a recent study published in American Sociological Review.<\/p>\n
Munsch looks at how likely it is a breadwinner will cheat \u2014 as well as how likely it is an economically dependent spouse will do the same.<\/p>\n
Her “counterintuitive” finding, per The Guardian: Men and women who are economically dependent on their partner are more likely to cheat, with men three times more inclined to do so.<\/p>\n
For women: Those who are totally economically dependent have a 5.2 percent probability of cheating, compared to 3.4 percent for those who brought home equal income and just 1.5 percent for total breadwinners.<\/p>\n
For completely financially dependent men, the probability of cheating was much higher: 15 percent.<\/p>\n
As for how common that scenario may be, CNN points to a Pew Research Center report that found that 15 percent of married mothers outearned their husbands in 2011.<\/p>\n
Men were actually least likely to cheat (2.9 percent) when they brought home 70 percent of the couple’s pooled income.<\/p>\n
Infidelity increases from there, with men who are the sole breadwinners having a 4 percent chance of cheating. “These men are aware that their wives are truly dependent and may think that, as a result, their wives will not leave them even if they cheat,” Munsch tells the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n
She arrived at her conclusions by crunching data of 2,757 straight people in the same relationship for at least a year as gathered by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth between 2001 and 2011.<\/p>\n
As the survey’s name suggests, those considered were young: between the ages of 18 and 32.<\/p>\n
What Munsch thinks her findings indicate: “We don’t really like inequity, and there’s probably something about masculinity that means men really don’t like it.”<\/p>\n
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