News Finding: By the end of the study, 42 percent of subjects reported having sex outside a relationship.
Paper Finding: Simple slope analyses indicated that high-SOI participants who had casual sex over the academic year had higher self-esteem (B ¼ 0.14, SE ¼ 0.06, p ¼ .025) and marginally lower depression (B ¼ À0.12, SE ¼ 0.07, p ¼ .091) and anxiety (B ¼ À0.11, SE ¼ 0.06, p ¼ .086) than high-SOI participants who did not have casual sex (Figure 3) .
News Context: If you're "sociosexually restricted," it might work the opposite way. By the end of the study, 42 percent of subjects reported having sex outside a relationship. When it came to those who were sociosexually unrestricted, having casual sex was associated with higher self-esteem and life satisfaction and lower depression and anxiety.
Paper Context: The critical interaction term was significant for all three assessed outcomes (all ps < .05). Simple slope analyses indicated that high-SOI participants who had casual sex over the academic year had higher self-esteem (B ¼ 0.14, SE ¼ 0.06, p ¼ .025) and marginally lower depression (B ¼ À0.12, SE ¼ 0.07, p ¼ .091) and anxiety (B ¼ À0.11, SE ¼ 0.06, p ¼ .086) than high-SOI participants who did not have casual sex (Figure 3) . Among low-SOI participants, those who had casual sex did not differ significantly from those who did not have casual sex on self-esteem (B ¼ À0.10, SE ¼ 0.07, p ¼ .168), depression (B ¼ 0.13, SE ¼ 0.08, p ¼ .104), or anxiety (B ¼ 0.11, SE ¼ 0.07, p ¼ .130).