Dating and Sexual Relationship Trajectories and Adolescent Functioning

By Catherine M. Grello, Deborah P. Welsh, Harper, J. Dickson. 2003

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Kissing is good: A developmental investigation of sexuality in adolescent romantic couples (2005, background): “It may be that intercourse represents an expression of status or power in younger adolescents (O’Sullivan, MeyerBalhburg, & Watkins, 2000; Savin-Williams & Diamond, 2004) or that younger adolescents attempt to use sex as a means of treating depressive feelings (Grello et al., 2003).”
No strings attached: The nature of casual sex in college students (2006, methodology): “Based on previous research, we expect depressive symptomatology will be associated with engaging in casual sex (Grello et al., 2003).”
Who Benefits From Casual Sex? The Moderating Role of Sociosexuality (2014, result): “The lack of any main effects of casual sex on well-being is consistent with most prior longitudinal research (Fielder & Carey, 2010a; Grello et al., 2003; Monahan & Lee, 2008; Owen et al., 2011), contributing to the conclusion that there are few uniformly negative or positive short-term or long-term”