Table 2

Sexually Permissive Attitudes and Perceived Social Norms for Hooking Up as a Function of College Hook up Behavior and Participant Gender

College Hook Up Behavior                                        F (1, 133)

 

Present
(n=49a)

Absent
(n=82)

 Hook Up Gender Interaction
Sexually permissive attitudesb     19.36*** 34.96*** <1
Women 2.34 1.81      
Men 3.48 2.59      
Descriptive social norms (estimated % of students) c     19.39** 13.23** 1.93
Women 76.66 60.09      
Men 63.20 43.89      

Note: a one participant was omitted due to missing descriptive norms data; b possible scores range from 1 to 5;
c possible scores range from 0 to 100; *** p < .001.