Department of Psychology and Social Sciences, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 W Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA, 17057, USA.
Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2019 Aug;48(6):1829-1845. doi: 10.1007/s10508-018-1330-4. Epub 2019 Mar 13.
Majority of college students hook up at least once during their time in school. The literature on casual sex encounters among college students is growing, though most studies are cross-sectional and individual studies focus on few outcomes at a time, leaving piecemeal and mixed results. The current longitudinal study clarifies prior work by analyzing how post-event process (PEP), an understudied construct within the hookup literature, and emotional (i.e., positive or negative) hookup reactions interact to predict a breadth of outcomes, representing holistic student well-being. The inclusion of PEP reframes the current literature to consider PEP as a predictor variable of hookup outcomes, as moderated by emotional hookup reactions. This is consistent with literature indicating emotional experiences affect PEP across a variety of incidents. Participants (N = 377, 87.6% female) completed self-report measures at 2-month intervals. We tested relationships between the main and interaction effects of PEP and emotional hookup reactions as a moderation regression analyses on anxiety, academic engagement, religious coping, and psychological flourishing. The main effect of PEP predicted more anxiety and less negative religious coping, negative hookup reactions predicted more anxiety, and positive hookup reactions predicted more flourishing. Regarding interaction effects, high levels of positive hookup reactions and PEP were associated with less anxiety, less academic engagement, more negative religious coping, and less psychological flourishing; high levels of negative hookup reactions and PEP were associated with less anxiety and more negative religious coping and were unrelated to academic engagement or flourishing over two months.
大多数大学生在上学期间至少有过一次性经历。尽管大多数研究都是横断面研究，而且个别研究一次只关注少数结果，但有关大学生偶然性行为的文献正在不断增加，这导致研究结果零碎且不一致。本纵向研究通过分析事后过程（PEP）和情感（即积极或消极） hookup 反应如何相互作用来预测一系列结果，从而澄清了先前的工作，这些结果代表了整体学生的幸福感。PEP 的纳入重新构建了 hookup 文献，将 PEP 作为 hookup 结果的预测变量，同时受到 hookup 反应的情绪的调节。这与文献一致，即情绪体验会影响各种事件中的 PEP。参与者（N=377，女性占 87.6%）每两个月完成一次自我报告测量。我们通过 moderation 回归分析测试了 PEP 和 hookup 反应的主要和交互作用对焦虑、学术参与、宗教应对和心理繁荣的关系。PEP 的主要效应预测了更多的焦虑和更少的消极宗教应对，消极的 hookup 反应预测了更多的焦虑，积极的 hookup 反应预测了更多的繁荣。关于交互效应，高水平的积极 hookup 反应和高水平的 PEP 与较少的焦虑、较少的学术参与、更多的消极宗教应对以及较少的心理繁荣有关；高水平的消极 hookup 反应和高水平的 PEP 与较少的焦虑和更多的消极宗教应对有关，与学术参与或繁荣无关，这在两个月内都是如此。
