Partner Meeting Contexts and Risky Behavior in College Students’ Other-Sex and Same-Sex Hookups

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 55-72

  Kuperberg, Arielle ^a   Padgett, Joseph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINGE DRINKING; CANNABIS USE; COLLEGE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL LIFE; TRUST; UNIVERSITY; UNPROTECTED SEX; ADULT; COLLEGE DRINKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING IN COLLEGE; BINGE DRINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STUDENTS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958044051     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2015.1124378     Document Type: Article

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