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Still Striving After All These Years: Between Normality of Conduct and Normativity of Evaluation in Casual Relationships among College Students
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Gender similarities have been detected in various sexual behaviors and attitudes in young adults, but persistent diferences
remain regarding casual sexual relationships (CSRs), with women feeling diferent external pressures than men. We set out
to study the spontaneous references made to gender similarities and diferences towards CSRs in eight focus group interviews (N=35 college-students, aged 18–28) about the characteristics of CSRs within a social-role framework. The thematic
analysis led us to the interpretation that there is an ongoing change in the acceptability of these relationships, leading to
the emergence of a single sexual standard – mostly liberal, but at times also conservative. However, diferent expectations
remain, derived from a deep-rooted traditional sexual double standard still perceived in society. Challenges to the unequal
standards and social constraints in CSRs is desired by many women, defended by men, and admired in those women whose
striving contributes to the normalization of this conduct and of how it is evaluated.
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This work was supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), under Grant (number PTDC/PSI-GER/28530/2017). This work received national funding from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P, through the Research Center for Psychological Science of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon (UIDB/04527/2020; UIDP/04527/2020).
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Young adult Focus group Sexual behavior Casual sex Gender equity Gender differences
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Citação
Alvarez, M.-J., Pegado, A., Luz, R., & Amaro, H. (2023). Still striving after all these years: Between normality of conduct and normativity of evaluation in casual relationships in college students. Current Psychology, 42(13), 10645–10655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02344-9
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Springer