This study examines digitally enabled mate poaching on Ashley Madison, an online dating platform for extradyadic affairs. To explore mate poaching as a potential explanation for what drives users of Ashley Madison to transition their online relationships to offline encounters, we conducted a multinational survey of 1,676 users (88.5 percent male, M_age = 50.98). Participants provided open-ended data about their mate poaching objectives, which ranged from short-term sexual encounters to long-term sexual and emotional affairs and new exclusive relationships. Structural equation modeling showed that participants' attitudes toward online infidelity predicted whether they would consider meeting someone from the website in person. Mate poaching intentions also mediated the effect of attitudes toward online infidelity on the likelihood of meeting another user face to face in the future. The results extend evolutionary theories of mate poaching to the digital dating environment and demonstrate the value of these perspectives for explaining relationship initiation practices on infidelity websites.

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探索在线不忠、配偶偷猎意图和线下会面的可能性之间的联系

这项研究调查了在 Ashley Madison 上进行数字化配偶偷猎，Ashley Madison 是一个在线婚外情约会平台。探索伴侣偷猎至于什么阿什利麦迪逊的驱动器的用户过渡到他们的在线关系到离线遇到一个可能的解释，我们进行了1676名的用户（88.5％为男性的多国调查显示，中号_年龄 = 50.98）。参与者提供了关于他们的配偶偷猎目标的开放式数据，范围从短期的性接触到长期的性和情感事务以及新的排他性关系。结构方程模型表明，参与者对网络不忠的态度可以预测他们是否会考虑亲自与网站上的某人会面。配偶偷猎意图还调节了对在线不忠的态度对未来与另一个用户面对面会面的可能性的影响。结果将配偶偷猎的进化理论扩展到数字约会环境，并证明了这些观点对于解释不忠网站上的关系起始实践的价值。