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Partner Meeting Contexts and Risky Behavior in College Students’ Other-Sex and Same-Sex Hookups

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Kuperberg, Arielle, Padgett, Joseph E.·2017·The Journal of Sex Research
DOI 10.1080/00224499.2015.1124378
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We analyzed a sample of 12,065 hookup encounters among college students at 22 colleges and universities in the Online College Social Life Survey (OCSLS) to explore how partner meeting locales may influence college students' risky behavior when hookup partners are met in those contexts. For other-sex encounters, meeting in bars or at parties, through common interest groups or history, and (for women) at dormitories was associated with binge drinking during encounters, while meeting online and (for women) in public was associated with reduced binge drinking during encounters. Unprotected sex during other-sex encounters was more common when partners were met in public and less common with partners met in dormitories. Binge drinking and marijuana use during or just prior to encounters was associated with an increased risk of unprotected sex and other substance use. Marijuana use and unprotected sex during encounters was more common when students knew their hookup partner better or had hooked up with the partner before, while binge drinking was associated with hooking up with less familiar partners. Associations of meeting contexts with behavior were explained by the locale's association with institutional and personal trust, social scripts, and selection into certain contexts by students with a risk-taking personality.

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  • Women are equally likely as men to use marijuana during or right before hookups and gender differences in alcohol and other drug use are significant but very small in magnitude.

    “Women are equally likely as men to use marijuana during or right before hookups and gender differences in alcohol and other drug use are significant (with women using substances less than men) but very small in magnitude (Kuperberg and Padgett 2017).”

    From Social Motivations for College Hookups. (2021) · cites this paper as Kuperberg and Padgett 2017

    The Results section (page unavailable) reports marijuana use during hookups by 15% of men versus 9–10% of women, so it does not support saying they were equally likely to use it. It reports some relatively small differences in binge drinking and other-drug use, but does not establish that the gender differences in both were statistically significant and very small in magnitude. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Prior research has found differing levels of hooking up, desire for hookup opportunities, and risk taking in hookups by sexual orientations and when partners were same-sex.

    “prior research has found differing levels of hooking up, desire for hookup opportunities, and risk taking in hookups by sexual orientations and when partners were same-sex (Kuperberg and Padgett 2016, 2017).”

    From Social Motivations for College Hookups. (2021) · cites this paper as Kuperberg and Padgett 2017

    The Results (page unavailable) report differences in risk taking between same-sex and other-sex hookups. The Meeting Contexts and Risky Behavior section (page unavailable) discusses differences in casual-sex rates and desire for hookups by gender, but the cited paper does not establish those differences by sexual orientation. Gender and partner sex are not interchangeable with sexual orientation. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Students of color are less likely to binge drink or use marijuana during hookup encounters compared to white students.

    “Students of color are less likely to binge drink or use marijuana during hookup encounters compared to white students (Kuperberg and Padgett 2017); therefore substance use may be less likely to motivate their hookups compared to those of white students.”

    From Social Motivations for College Hookups. (2021) · cites this paper as Kuperberg and Padgett 2017

    The Meeting Contexts and Risky Behavior section reports lower drug and alcohol use among Black adolescents than White adolescents, citing Wallace et al. (2003). That is a narrower population and concerns general use, not binge drinking or marijuana use during college hookup encounters among students of color broadly. The Results section reports encounter-level substance use but does not give the claimed racial comparison. (LLM, conf=0.79)

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  • Social expectations of the college experience can include expectations of hooking up as part of a broader partying social script.

    “which can include expectations of hooking up as part of a broader partying ‘social script’ associated with college (Wade 2017, Kuperberg and Padgett 2017)”

    From Social Motivations for College Hookups. (2021) · cites this paper as Kuperberg and Padgett 2017

  • Nearly half of college hookups involve binge drinking during or right before the encounter, and over 1 in 10 include marijuana consumption.

    “nearly half of college hookups involve binge drinking during or right before the encounter, and over 1 in 10 included marijuana consumption”

    From Social Motivations for College Hookups. (2021) · cites this paper as Kuperberg and Padgett 2017

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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
2016-01-26
Volume
54
Issue
1
Pages
55-72
ISSN
  • 0022-4499 (ISSN-L)
  • 1559-8519
DOI
10.1080/00224499.2015.1124378
OpenAlex
W2260272612
Cited by
48
References
70
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
FWCI
9.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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
  • UNCG New Faculty Grant
  • UNCG New Faculty Summer Excellence Award Grant
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Sexual Relationships
Keywords
hookups, university students, binge drinking, unprotected sex, cannabis use, online dating, dormitories, partner familiarity, trust, social scripts, sexual risk behavior
MeSH terms
Alcohol Drinking in College, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Risk-Taking, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Partners, Students, Unsafe Sex, Young Adult, Binge Drinking

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