Casual sex among Australian schoolies.
This study of the casual sexual partnering of 570 male and 776 female Australian high school students on a  schoolies week  vacation expands on earlier research on factors that influence the sexual activity of vacationing youth. Over 60% of the men and nearly 40% of the women who engaged in sexual intercourse during schoolies week did so with a casual partner. We used logistic regression to test an expanded version of Triandis  Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (TIB) in explaining casual sexual partnering. Situational experiences (similar to what others have called situational disinhibition), prior sexual experiences and intentions (similar to what others have called spillover) influenced casual sexual partnering. Different causal pathways were demonstrated for men and women.
Maticka-Tyndale
Eleanor
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Department of Sociology Anthropology, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave., Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada. maticka@uwindsor.ca.
Herold
Edward S
ES
Oppermann
Martin
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*