The personal importance of religion was related to lower levels of cheating, according to new research out of the US.

National data collected in late 2019 by the survey research group YouGov—the iFidelity Survey— examined 1,282 ever-married individuals using both demographic, attitudinal, and relational predictors of extramarital affairs.

As with nearly all studies of extramarital affairs, the iFidelity data suggest that men are more likely to report ever having engaged in an extramarital affair. In the survey, 20% of ever-married men and 10% of ever-married women reported cheating on their spouse in the past.

The study also found that the personal importance of religion was related to lower levels of cheating, whereas religious worship service attendance was not.

Having a strict definition of infidelity, feeling that religion is very important in one’s own life, and perceiving one’s relationship as stable were all less associated with reporting an extramarital affair.