Abstract:
Background and Aim: Understanding the causes of extramarital relationships and the factors influencing
it is important for both spouses, and included benefits .The purpose of this study was to compare the
loneliness and spiritual well‑being in married men with and without extramarital involvement the married
men. Methods: The present study is a descriptive and type of the causal‑comparative. The statistical
population consisted of all the married men in Isfahan. The sample consisted of 100 married men (50
married men with extramarital and 50 without extramarital) who were selected by convenience sampling
method. Then these instruments were Russell administered loneliness scale and Paloutzian and Ellison
spiritual well‑being scale, which was completed by the participants. The analysis was performed using
the both SPSS‑16 software IBM SPSS analytic server and the covariance analysis. Result: This finding
indicated that the two groups had a difference significantly in regard to loneliness and the spiritual
well‑being (P ≤ 0/05). Conclusions: The results showed that the loneliness of married men with an
extramarital relationship was more than men without extramarital relationship, and spiritual well‑being of
men with extramarital relationship was lesser than married men who have no extramarital relationship
Machine summary:
In a stu dy Paloutzian and Ellison*"* reported, Cronbach's alpha coefficients of / Table 2: Shapiro-Wilk test for normality of the distribution of loneliness and spiritual well-being / Variable Group Statistical Degree of CI indicators freedom / religiri us anti existential well-being and the who le scale, respectively, 0/91, 0/91, and 0/93.
/ Table 3: Results of Levine test in the case of equality of variance beMeen loneliness and spiritual well-being / Uariable Index F Degree of Degree of Level of freedom freedom confidence / For the analysis of covariance, the normality and the equal variance of the dependent variables were analyzeci through Loneliness 13/129 Spiritual 5/330 well-being 1 98 0/001 1 98 0/023 Journal of Educational and Psychological Researches / Vol 2 / Issue 3 T July September 2016 distribution of the group has had a significant relationship, and the ciifference of variance between the two gr‹ ups was significant, so in the case of unequal size of the groups and smaller gr‹ ups ( In the present stu dy, d ifferences in the degree of loneliness and spi ritual well-1 e ing in men with extra marita1 relationship and no extramarital relationship was examined.
, n‹ ted that religi‹ us 1 ehavi‹ r may be with an emphasis / Table 4: The results of the analysis of covariance on the loneliness and spiritual well-being of married men with or without extramarital relationship (View the image of this page) International Journal of Educational and Psychological Researches T Vol 2 T Issue 3 T July September 2016 on relationships, commitment to family, commitment to religiriris values, anti convicti‹ ns re1ati‹ nships ‹outside of marriage affect the reciucti‹ n ‹ f illicit sexual relations.