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Dating and Hooking Up in College: Meeting Contexts, Sex, and Variation by Gender, Partner's Gender, and Class Standing

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Kuperberg, Arielle, Padgett, Joseph E.·2015·The Journal of Sex Research
DOI 10.1080/00224499.2014.901284
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This study examined 13,976 dates and 12,068 hookup encounters at 22 colleges in the United States reported by students surveyed between 2005 and 2011 in the Online College Social Life Survey (OCSLS) to determine differences between dates and hookups in partner meeting context and sex during the encounter. Students most often met date and hookup partners through institutional settings or bars and parties, with approximately two-thirds of partners met in these venues. Those who had fewer potential partners on campus (women) were less likely to find partners in campus locations and less likely to find male sexual or dating partners but more likely to date women. Men and women engaging in same-sex encounters had higher rates of meeting partners through Internet sources. Hookups were associated with partners met in bars, parties, nightclubs, and college dormitories, and were twice as likely as dates to include sex. Students were more likely to go on dates with partners met on the Internet, which we theorize is a result of low levels of trust associated with that context. Patterns found are related to the association of meeting contexts with hookup scripts, risk and trust, and local partnering markets.

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  • Past research on hookups has mostly focused on what type of activity occurs during, or just prior to, the hookup, while limited research has explored selection into hookups and number of casual sex partners by personality, attitudes toward sexuality, other individualistic and psychological characteristics, demographic characteristics, and local campus factors such as sex ratios.

    “Past research on hookups has mostly focused on what type of activity occurs during, or just prior to, the hookup, while limited research has explored selection into hookups and number of casual sex partners by personality, attitudes toward sexuality, other individualistic and psychological characteristics, demographic characteristics, and local campus factors such as sex ratios (Adkins et al., 201”

    From The role of culture in explaining college students’ selection into hookups, dates, and long-term romantic relationships (2016) · cites this paper as Kuperberg & Padgett, 2015

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  • About one third of dates in the data included penetrative sex versus two thirds of hookups.

    “about one third of dates in our data included penetrative sex versus two thirds of hookups (Kuperberg & Padgett, 2015).”

    From The role of culture in explaining college students’ selection into hookups, dates, and long-term romantic relationships (2016) · cites this paper as Kuperberg & Padgett, 2015

    The Results report that 34% of dates and 69% of hookups included sex, matching the approximate proportions. But Data, Measures, and Method defines that measure to include genital stimulation and oral sex as well as vaginal and anal sex, so the figures do not establish rates of penetrative sex. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • College campuses facilitate partnering by exposing students to more sexually active unmarried young adults than other contexts, in an institutionally embedded, socially pre-selective setting where students are more likely to meet partners who share similar worldviews.

    “College campuses in particular facilitate partnering by exposing students to more sexually active unmarried young adults than other contexts, in an institutionally embedded, socially pre-selective setting where students are more likely to meet partners who share similar worldviews, leading to more compatible matches (Kimmel, 2008; Kuperberg & Padgett, 2015; Laumann, Ellingson, Mahay, Paik, & Youm,”

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  • Romantic and sexual partnering is shaped by stratified cultural expectations or scripts and social norms.

    “romantic and sexual partnering is shaped by stratified cultural expectations or scripts and social norms .”

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  • The distribution of surveys in these courses may have resulted in the uneven sex ratio we find in our data, in which more students were found to be female compared to college students as a whole in those universities.

    “The distribution of surveys in these courses may have resulted in the uneven sex ratio we find in our data, in which more students were found to be female compared to college students as a whole in those universities (Kuperberg & Padgett, 2015).”

    From The role of culture in explaining college students’ selection into hookups, dates, and long-term romantic relationships (2016) · cites this paper as Kuperberg & Padgett, 2015

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Authors
Kuperberg, A., & Padgett, J. E.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
  • University of South Carolina (US)
Corresponding author
Kuperberg, Arielle
ORCID
Kuperberg, Arielle
Venue
The Journal of Sex Research
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2014-04-21
Volume
52
Issue
5
Pages
517-531
ISSN
  • 0022-4499 (ISSN-L)
  • 1559-8519
DOI
10.1080/00224499.2014.901284
OpenAlex
W2022494891
Cited by
84
References
49
Citations by year
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FWCI
18.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • The Journal of Sex Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
Funders
Funding for this article was provided by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Faculty Research Grant as administered by the Office of Research and Economic Development, and by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Faculty Mentoring Program Grant.
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Sexual Relationships
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Keywords
hookups, sexual encounters, gender differences, online dating, trust, class standing, university students
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Courtship, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Sexual Behavior, Students, United States, Universities, Internet, Young Adult

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