Liao Ching-pi, an associate professor of social work at Soochow University and director of the Yoyuen Social Work Foundation, holds strongly to the newer view. Studies done overseas, says Liao, "show that affairs are most likely to happen with men who are unsuccessful in their careers, suffering from sexual dysfunction, or faced with problems in their family or personal relationships that they can't handle."
「沒錯，」東吳大學社工系副教授、友緣基金會執行長廖清碧指出，根據國外研究，「事業不順、性無能、面臨家庭或人際衝突卻無力解決者，最容易外遇。」