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The co-occurrence between alcohol use and sexual behavior is not surprising as alcohol use is prevalent in both adolescence and young adulthood with 9.4% of those aged 12–17 and 57.75% of those aged 18–25 engaging in past-month alcohol use (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2016).
In Fielder and Carey’s (2010a) study among 118 first-semester female college students, participants reported that 64% of uncommitted sexual encounters follow alcohol use, with a median consumption of 3 alcoholic drinks.
Aug 22, 2019 · Hookups are uncommitted sexual encounters that range from kissing to intercourse and occur between individuals in whom there is no current dating relationship and no expressed or acknowledged expectations of a relationship following the hookup.
- Tracey A. Garcia, Dana M. Litt, Kelly Cue Davis, Jeanette Norris, Debra Kaysen, Melissa A. Lewis
- 2019
- Welcome to ‘Ce Corner'
- A Cultural Revolution
- Affective Responses to Hooking Up
- Hook-Up Regret
- Hook-Up Culture and Mental Health
- Hook-Up Culture and Sexual Risk
- Sex Differences in Hook-Up Behaviors
- Conclusion
"CE Corner" is a quarterly continuing education article offered by the APA Office of CE in Psychology. This feature will provide you with updates on critical developments in psychology, drawn from peer-reviewed literature and written by leading psychology experts. "CE Corner" appears in the February 2012, April, July/August and Novemberissues of th...
Hookups — defined in this article as brief uncommitted sexual encounters between individuals who are not romantic partners or dating each other — have emerged from more general social shifts taking place during the last century. Hookups began to become more frequent in the 1920s, with the upsurge of automobiles and novel entertainment, such as movi...
On average, both men and women appear to have higher positive affect than negative affect after a hookup. In one study, among participants who were asked to characterize the morning after a hookup, 82 percent of men and 57 percent of women were generally glad they had done it (Garcia & Reiber, 2008). The gap between men and women is notable and dem...
A number of studies have looked at regret with respect to hookups and have documented the negative feelings men and women may feel after casual sex. In a large Web-based study of 1,468 undergraduate students, participants reported a variety of consequences: 27.1 percent felt embarrassed, 24.7 percent reported emotional difficulties, 20.8 percent ex...
An individual history of hook-up behavior has been associated with a variety of mental health factors. In a study of 394 young adults followed across a university semester, those with more depressive symptoms and greater feelings of loneliness who engaged in penetrative sex hookups subsequently reported a reduction in both depressive symptoms and f...
Despite the prevalence of positive feelings, hookups can include negative outcomes, such as emotional and psychological injury, sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy. Despite those risks, a qualitative study of 71 college students (39 women and 32 men) found that nearly half of participants were not concerned abo...
Some research has considered the interactions of sex and individual differences in predicting hook-up behavior. The Mating Intelligence Scale, designed to measure an individual's cognitive abilities in the evolutionary domain of mating (see Geher & Kaufman, 2011), was used to assess hook-up behavior in a sample of 132 college students. Young men hi...
Uncommitted sex, now being explored across a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, is best understood as a biopsychosocial phenomenon. Evidence suggests that both pleasure and reproductive motives may influence these sexual patterns, as seen in participants' reactions following uncommitted sex. Further, the findings that a majority o...
Jun 28, 2016 · An association between serial casual sex/uncommitted sexual encounters and increased risk for negative consequences of alcohol use would suggest the need for targeted alcohol interventions in settings associated with sexual risk (e.g., sexually transmitted infection clinics and college campuses).
- William R. Corbin, Caitlin J. Scott, Teresa A. Treat
- 10.15288/jsad.2016.77.629
- 2016
- 2016/07
Jun 1, 2012 · “Hookups,” or uncommitted sexual encounters, are becoming progressively more engrained in popular culture, reflecting both evolved sexual predilections and changing social and sexual scripts. Hook-up activities may include a wide range of sexual behaviors, such as kissing, oral sex, and penetrative intercourse.
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Growing Up, Hooking Up, and Drinking: A Review of Uncommitted Sexual Behavior and Its Association With Alcohol Use and Related Consequences Among Adolescents
