• 329-01 - First Semester College Men's Hookups: The Role of Pre-college Risk Behavior
  Presented by: Spencer Olmstead, Patricia Roberson, Frank Fincham, Kay Pasley
• 329-02 - Parenting, Self-deprecation, Stress, and Emerging Adults’ Depression
  Presented by: Christian Duarte, Sevim Mollova, Paige Seegan, Scott Plunkett
• 329-03 - Intimate Partner Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
  Presented by: Ming Cui, Mellissa Gordon
• 329-04 - The Effects of SES, Parenting, and Personality on Age at First Partnership
  Presented by: Jennifer Senia, Tricia Neppl

Abstracts

First Semester College Men's Hookups: The Role of Pre-college Risk Behavior

Presented by: Spencer Olmstead, Patricia Roberson, Frank Fincham, Kay Pasley

Hooking up has received recent attention from both the popular press and scholars. We examined the role of pre-college drinking and hookup experience on men's hookups and penetrative hookups during their first semester of college. Findings show that men are largely socialized into hooking up prior to arriving at college, and pre-college drinking and hooking up exponentially increases the likelihood that they will continue to engage in casual sex behaviors during their first semester. Implications are that intervention efforts to promote safe sex behaviors should begin prior to or upon arrival of men to college.

Parenting, Self-deprecation, Stress, and Emerging Adults’ Depression

Presented by: Christian Duarte, Sevim Mollova, Paige Seegan, Scott Plunkett

Little attention has been devoted to antecedents of depression during emerging adulthood. Self-report survey data were collected from 1525 ethnically diverse, university students in Southern California. The results found that (1) self-deprecation was positively related to depressive symptom, (2) level of stress was positively related to self-deprecation and depressive symptoms, (3) conflict with parents was positively related to level of stress, self-deprecation, and depressive symptoms, and (4) meeting expectations by parents was negatively related self-deprecation. The findings from this study would suggest that helping professionals could use cognitive-behavioral strategies to diminish depressive symptoms in emerging adults.  

Intimate Partner Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Presented by: Ming Cui, Mellissa Gordon

This study examined the continuation of intimate partner violence (IPV) from adolescence to young adulthood.  Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), results from propensity score models showed that being victimized by relationship partners in adolescence was significantly associated with both perpetration and victimization in romantic relationships in young adulthood.  Implications of these findings for understanding intimate partner violence were also discussed.

The Effects of SES, Parenting, and Personality on Age at First Partnership

Presented by: Jennifer Senia, Tricia Neppl

This study examined continuities in socioeconomic status across two generations (G1, G2) as mediated through G1 parenting, G2 personality, and G2 age of first romantic partnership. Participants were 334 emerging adults from an ongoing longitudinal study of the transition to adulthood. Consistent with the interactionist model, the results indicated that G1 SES was associated with G2 personality indirectly through G1 parenting. G1 parenting was also indirectly associated with G2 age at partnership through G2 personality. G1 SES and G2 first partnership directly predicted G2 SES. Findings were consistent across each personality superfactor: positive emotionality, negative emotionality, and constraint.