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The present study examined whether self-compassion moderates the association between perceived romantic relationship quality and infidelity proneness. Using a cross-sectional correlational design, data were collected from 384 adults in T\u00fcrkiye aged 18\u201368 years (\n                    <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 31.04,\n                    <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 9.40). Participants completed measures of perceived romantic relationship quality, self-compassion, and infidelity proneness. Moderation analysis was conducted using PROCESS Model 1, adjusting for gender, age, and relationship duration. Perceived romantic relationship quality was negatively associated with infidelity proneness (\n                    <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                    = \u22120.614,\n                    <jats:italic>p &amp;lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                    0.001), as was self-compassion (\n                    <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                    = \u22120.251,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.001). Self-compassion significantly moderated the association between perceived romantic relationship quality and infidelity proneness (\n                    <jats:italic>b<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.062, SE = 0.015,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.001), accounting for an additional 2.2% of the variance. The negative association between relationship quality and infidelity proneness was significant at low, mean, and high levels of self-compassion but became progressively weaker as self-compassion increased. At lower levels of relationship quality, higher self-compassion corresponded to lower predicted infidelity proneness; however, this pattern was not uniform across the full range of relationship quality. These findings suggest that self-compassion may be relevant to understanding individual differences in how relational evaluations are associated with infidelity-related tendencies, while cautioning against interpreting self-compassion as uniformly protective. From a clinical perspective, the findings support considering both perceptions of relationship quality and intrapersonal regulation when assessing infidelity-related concerns in individual and couple contexts, while longitudinal research is needed before causal or intervention-related conclusions can be drawn.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1945800","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]],"date-time":"2026-10-01T05:41:25Z","timestamp":1790833285000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["When self-compassion matters: romantic relationship quality and infidelity proneness"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Hatice Deniz","family":"\u00d6zdemir","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Arts and Social Sciences, Psychology, Esenyurt University","place":["\u0130stanbul, T\u00fcrkiye"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tubanur Bayram","family":"Kuzgun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Cappadocia University","place":["Nevsehir, T\u00fcrkiye"]},{"name":"Ghost to Guest Institute","place":["Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"853","DOI":"10.1037\/a0021884","article-title":"Self-compassion and relationship maintenance: The moderating roles of conscientiousness and gender.","volume":"100","author":"Baker","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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