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  • Psychology
  • Public Health

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  • Hookups are common among college students, yet motivations remain unclear.
  • Prior research focused on psychological factors and gender, neglecting social influences.
  • Understanding diverse motivations is crucial for college student well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore hookup prevalence and motivations in heterosexual college students.
  • To examine demographic and social predictors of hookup motivations.
  • To identify distinct social motivation classes for hookups.

Main Methods:

  • Survey of 180 heterosexual college students at a Southeast university.
  • Analysis of demographic characteristics, marital expectations, and parent/peer marital status.
  • Latent class analysis to identify motivation profiles.

Main Results:

  • Sexual pleasure is the primary motivation; relationship formation and 'college experience' are significant secondary motivations.
  • Gender, mother's education, religiosity, parent's coupled status, and friends' marital status predict motivations.
  • Five distinct social hookup motivation classes were identified: abstainers, relationship seekers, pleasure seekers, and college script followers.

Conclusions:

  • Hookup motivations are multifaceted, influenced by individual and social factors.
  • Distinct profiles of students emerge based on their hookup motivations.
  • Future research should consider social context and diverse motivations in college hookup behavior.