Published: 2017-03-31

Faithful love and adultery in evaluations of high school students and university students

Józef Baniak

Abstract

In this article, I present ideas and evaluations of high school students and university students towards love, fidelity and adultery. This presentation is based on the results of my sociological research carried out in 2011 among students of secondary schools and specialized secondary schools in Kalisz (456) and among students of the School of Communication and Management in Poznan (436). Studies have shown that: 1) the domi-nant majority of respondents (73.6%) correctly understands the essence of love, fidelity and adultery; 2) The overwhelming majority of high school students and university students (78.2%) accepts mutual fidelity of spouses and see it as a fundamental criterion of sustainability and the indissolubility of a marriage; 3) the assessment of the dominant proportion of respondents (89.4%), fidelity applies in equal measure to a wife and a husband because both spouses are responsible for the stability of their relationship and family; 4) only a small percentage of respondents in both categories (13.5%) challenges the undying fidelity in marriage and tolerates the possibility of adultery, justifying it by various reasons and causes; 5) religious and secular approach of respondents to marital love, the institution of marriage and the family influences at strongest the perception of fidelity and infidelity - religious respondents in greater numbers are in favor of undying and unconditional fidelity of both spouses, while non-religious respondents are more tolerant and more numerous in favoring adultery, and also they question the need for fidelity of married couples over their personal and non personal opportunities; 6) respondents in my study, especially students, to a greater extent than respondents in other studies, are willing to stand for infidelity in marriage if the marriage is functioning inadequately to the expectations of both spouses, not providing them a full satisfaction with living together or personal happiness. Of course, this is a subjective understanding of marital infidelity and a way of justification with the various factors by these respondents.

Keywords:

marriage, family, love, marital fidelity, adultery, ideas, assessments, high school students, university students

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Baniak, J. (2017). Faithful love and adultery in evaluations of high school students and university students. Academic Journal of Sociology, 18(1). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/ucs/article/view/2938

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