Negative Impacts Of Hooking Up Experienced By College Students

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Negative Impacts of Hooking Up Experienced by College Students Journal Article Critique Matthew Mata February 11, 2018 Introduction Casual consensual sexual encounters, known as “hooking up,” among college students has been associated with range of positive and negative consequences, as noted in Lucy E. Napper, Kevin Montes, Shannon R. Kenney, and Joseph W. LaBrie research article, Assessing the Personal Negative Impacts of Hooking Up Experienced by College Students: Gender Differences and Mental Health. The study discusses “the relationships among hooking up behaviors, psychological distress, and a broad range of negative effects of hooking up in both male and female college students” (Napper et al, 2015 pg.1). Napper et al’s (2015) study used a sample of college students …show more content…

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Study participants were undergraduates from three universities taking part of a greater alcohol intervention study. Out of 2,139 students, the final sample of 607 participants were chosen by only selecting students who’ve hooked up in the last three months and had to be of the age 18 to 26 years old. After selected the students, and answering yes to hooking up in the last three months, they were given 17 questions in regards to their negative impacts after the hookups. The questions were based on qualitative and quantitative research on the negative emotion, social, and health impacts of hooking up (Napper et al, 2015 pg. 5). They also had to report how many partners and how often they hooked up. They finally had to take a 21-item Depression Anxiety Strees Scale, to test for higher levels of stress within the individual. They chose to use the IRT calibration to examine item characteristics over the classical test theory