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A Prospective Study of Adolescents’ Sexual Partnerships on Emerging Adults’ Relationship Satisfaction and Intimate Partner Aggression

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Longmore, Monica A., Manning, Wendy D., Copp, Jennifer E., Giordano, Peggy C.·2016·Emerging Adulthood

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We examined whether the influence of adolescents’ sexual partnerships, both dating and casual, carried over to affect emerging adults’ relationship satisfaction and experiences of intimate partner aggression. Analyses of longitudinal data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study ( n = 294) showed that net of control variables (delinquency, depression, family violence, relational and sociodemographic characteristics), adolescents’ number of dating, but not casual, sexual partners led to greater odds of intimate partner aggression during emerging adulthood. Further, relationship churning (breaking-up and getting back together) and sexual nonexclusivity during emerging adulthood mediated the influence of adolescents’ number of dating sexual partnerships on intimate partner aggression. The positive effect of dating sexual partnerships on intimate partner aggression was stronger for women compared with men. These findings confirm the long reach of adolescent experiences into emerging adulthood.

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  • Adolescents who reported a higher number of relationship partners and more frequent dating were more likely to show poorer emotional well-being in young adulthood.

    “Those studies that do exist have found that adolescents who reported a higher number of relationship partners and more frequent dating were more likely to show poorer emotional well-being (Longmore et al. 2016; Szwedo et al. 2015) in young adulthood.”

    From Patterns of Romantic Relationship Experiences and Psychosocial Adjustment From Adolescence to Young Adulthood (2021) · cites this paper as Longmore et al. 2016

    The Results (Relationship Satisfaction; page unavailable) report that more adolescent dating sexual partners were associated with lower relationship satisfaction in emerging adulthood at the bivariate level, but not after adjustment. The study measured dating sexual partnerships and later relationship satisfaction and intimate partner aggression—not dating frequency generally or overall emotional well-being—so the citing sentence broadens its findings. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Longmore, M. A., Manning, W. D., Copp, J. E., & Giordano, P. C.
Affiliations
  • Bowling Green State University (US)
  • Florida State University (US)
Corresponding author
Longmore, Monica A.
Venue
Emerging Adulthood
Published
2016-06-21
Volume
4
Issue
6
Pages
403-416
ISSN
  • 2167-6968 (ISSN-L)
  • 2167-6984
OpenAlex
W2283665840
Cited by
37
References
71
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
FWCI
8.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Emerging Adulthood (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD050959, R24HD050959, R01HD066087, R01HD044206)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Sexual Relationships
Keywords
dating, casual sex, relationship satisfaction, intimate partner aggression, gender differences

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