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- Title
Is the Actual Ideal?: A Content Analysis of College Students' Descriptions of Ideal and Actual Hookups.
- Authors
Kratzer, Jessica; Aubrey, Jennifer
- Abstract
This study examined gender differences in college students' open-ended descriptions of ideal and actual hookups. Themes for each of the open-ended response questions were coded by two coders. Results are from a sample of undergraduate students (N = 343) and indicate that 35.9 % (N = 61) of the female participants' descriptions were coded as 'very different' between actual and ideal hookups, whereas only 17.2 % (N = 29) of male participants' descriptions were coded as 'very different.' Conversely, 55.6 % (N = 94) of male participants exhibited 'no difference' between their actual and ideal descriptions of their hookup experience, whereas 38.2 % (N = 65) of female participants' descriptions were not discrepant. Both differences were statistically significant. Results for descriptions of ideal hookup partners and communication expectations did not differ by gender.
- Subjects
GENDER studies; SEX discrimination; PARENTAL preferences for sex of children; RADICAL therapy (Psychotherapy); SEX discrimination against men
- Publication
Sexuality & Culture, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 2, p236
- ISSN
1095-5143
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12119-015-9318-x