If you’re dating the boss, you might want to read on.
Your other half might be putting more than those big business deals to bed.
Apparently, the more high powered the job, the more likely that person is to cheat on their partner according to a new study published in the Journal of Sex Research.
The research tracked the fidelity of three management levels, asking men and women from two general lifestyle magazines Men’s Health and Marie Claire about their sexual behaviour.
The study, carried out by collecting data from 610 heterosexual Dutch men and women was analysed by Social Psychologist Dr. Joris Lammers.
When those who responded that they had been unfaithful to their partners were tracked on the management scale, the results found 9 per cent of respondents were in lower management, 24 per cent of middle management reported being unfaithful while the highest percentage of those who had cheated on their spouse was tracked to top management positions at 37 per cent.
The research did conclude that the scandal was not reflective of men being more unfaithful than women, with the study finding that media stereotypically chose to highlight male infidelity as they “are still more likely than women to hold public office and other powerful positions,” and not because women were less likely to cheat.
So is it a case of power going straight to their head?
Psychologically, it was noted that those in power had noted a change in their own self-perception, with the report stating:
“Power psychologically releases people from the inhibiting effects of social norms and increases their tendency to express counter-normative forms of sexuality”.
