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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Volume 33, Issue 8, Pages 1070-1096Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0265407515616876
Keywords
Casual sex; college students; dates; hooking up; romantic relationships; sociology
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- University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Faculty Research Grant
- New Faculty Summer Excellence Award Grant
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We analyze the Online College Social Life Survey, a survey collected between 2005 and 2011 of students (N = 22,454) at 22 U.S. colleges and universities and estimate whether students hooked up, dated, formed long-term romantic relationships, or did not form relationships while in college and their desire for these relationship opportunities. Students have equal rates of hooking up and dating. Men are more likely than women to have dated and hooked up and less likely to have formed a long-term relationship, although they are more likely to wish there were more opportunities to form long-term relationships. An examination of intimate partnering by sexual orientation, race, religious attendance, and Greek culture reveals distinct pattern that can be explained by cultural norms.
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