The Impact of Relational Satisfaction on Commitment and Fidelity Within Arab Americans in Romantic Relationships

The romantic relationship of Arab American couples have been noticeably excluded from the research literature. Intersection between fidelity, commitment, and relational satisfaction, along with contextual factors for Arab Americans has not been addressed in research. In this paper, hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to explore the relationship between relational satisfaction and commitment and fidelity among Arab American couples. Our findings indicated that there are positive correlations among relational satisfaction, commitment, and fidelity and revealed that relational satisfaction significantly predicts Arab American couple's commitment and fidelity. Future directions are provided to encourage clinicians to provide culturally sensitive care to advocate needs for Arab American clients and suggest future researchers to expand different aspects (gender roles, gender differences, or religion) further their understanding and different methodology to capture Arab American couples' lived romantic relationship experience.