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<p>Based on student journal submissions, we detail how students at a large Mid-Western University in the United States perceive and engage in hookup culture on their campus. Students responded to journal entry prompts and chronicled their own and their friends’ sexual activities and how they perceive the broader campus sexual culture. The initial findings from 110 journal entries illustrate that hooking up has both social and emotional impacts. In this paper we describe the benefits students expressed about hooking up such as feelings of belonging and fitting in as well as the drawbacks and broader issues related to hooking up and campus sexual culture like feelings of emptiness, disgust and shame. We situate these experiences within a social ecological model to understand the broader campus ecosystem and how multiple and often competing narratives and institutions collide to create the campus social and sexual environment. While broader cultural narratives would have us believe that everyone on campus is engaging in hookups, our research shows a more nuanced understanding of how and why these students hookup, or do not hookup, and how those experiences relate to their understanding of broader gendered sexual scripts.</p>

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College Students’ Perceptions of Hookup Culture Through a Social Ecological Lens

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    2025年6月3日

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  • Sarah Prior,
  • Lauren Golden,
  • Emma Huizenga,
  • Cassidy Versen,
  • Matayia Newbern

摘要

Based on student journal submissions, we detail how students at a large Mid-Western University in the United States perceive and engage in hookup culture on their campus. Students responded to journal entry prompts and chronicled their own and their friends’ sexual activities and how they perceive the broader campus sexual culture. The initial findings from 110 journal entries illustrate that hooking up has both social and emotional impacts. In this paper we describe the benefits students expressed about hooking up such as feelings of belonging and fitting in as well as the drawbacks and broader issues related to hooking up and campus sexual culture like feelings of emptiness, disgust and shame. We situate these experiences within a social ecological model to understand the broader campus ecosystem and how multiple and often competing narratives and institutions collide to create the campus social and sexual environment. While broader cultural narratives would have us believe that everyone on campus is engaging in hookups, our research shows a more nuanced understanding of how and why these students hookup, or do not hookup, and how those experiences relate to their understanding of broader gendered sexual scripts.