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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- 1 Department of Sociology , The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- 2 Department of Sociology , University of South Carolina.
- J Sex Res. 2016 Jan 26:1-18.
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