News Finding: "I found that whether or not students hooked up during the course of the year was not related to their well-being at the end of the year," Vrangalova previously wrote according to HuffPost.
Paper Finding: Finally, additional analyses of the 9-month follow-up indicated the moderating effect of sociosexuality may be limited to longer casual partners.
News Context: The reasons could be autonomous or non-autonomous. "I found that whether or not students hooked up during the course of the year was not related to their well-being at the end of the year," Vrangalova previously wrote according to HuffPost. "However, whether they did it for nonautonomous motives was."
Paper Context: Future studies need to examine this. Finally, additional analyses of the 9-month follow-up indicated the moderating effect of sociosexuality may be limited to longer casual partners. This could be due to low power (as one-time encounters were rarer) or to substantive differences between the two types of casual sex.