NDLI: Shared Social and Emotional Activities Within Adolescent Romantic and Non-Romantic Sexual Relationships

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Author	Williams, Lela Rankin Russell, Stephen T.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Typically, “non-romantic” sexual relationships are assumed to be casual; however, the emotional and social distinctions between romantic and non-romantic contexts are not well understood, particularly in adolescence. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) was used to compare shared emotional (e.g., telling partner that they love her/him) and social (e.g., going out in a group) activities within romantic and non-romantic sexual relationships. Adolescents who reported exclusively romantic sexual relationships (n = 1,891) shared more emotional, but not social, activities with their partners than adolescents who were in non-romantic sexual relationships (n = 315; small effect size, r = .07–.13), akin to adolescents who experienced both relationship types (n = 519; small-to-medium effect size, r = .18–.38). Girls shared more emotional and social activities with their partners than boys when in romantic relationships (small effect size, r = .06–.10); there were no significant gender differences within non-romantic sexual relationships. Findings suggest that gendered scripts remain for sexual relationships that are romantic but not for those that are non-romantic. Notably, for the majority of adolescents, non-romantic relationships still held many emotional and social dimensions typical of romantic relationships and differences between relationship types were small. Although non-romantic relationships were less intimate than romantic sexual relationships, there was remarkable heterogeneity within this relationship type. Caution is advised when working with adolescents engaged in “casual” sexual relationships. Understanding the complexity of adolescent sexual relationships is critical for the advancement of effective sex education programming.
Starting Page	649
Ending Page	658
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00040002
Journal	Archives of Sexual Behavior
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15732800
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-01-08
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Casual sex Adolescence Gender Friends with benefits Sexual Behavior Public Health Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Psychology

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