Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Family Studies and Human Services / Jared R. Anderson / The current study tests a theoretical model exploring the relationship between hooking up
and marital quality and whether this relationship is mediated by sexual satisfaction and
communication using public-use data from currently married participants in Wave IV of the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health, n = 1,729). Gender proved to
significantly moderate the association between the variables in the model, but college education
did not. The results indicate that hooking up has a direct negative relationship with marital
quality for men that is not mediated by either sexual satisfaction or communication. The results
for women revealed no direct relationship between hooking up and marital quality, but an
indirect influence via communication.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:KSU/oai:krex.k-state.edu:2097/13349 |
| Date | January 1900 |
| Creators | Johnson, Matthew David |
| Publisher | Kansas State University |
| Source Sets | K-State Research Exchange |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
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