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Young women who have a lot of sexual partners when they start university may be more likely to suffer from depression, a new study warns.
They found that women who have casual flings are more likely to suffer from depression than people in ‘romantic’ relationships.
The research team, from Syracuse and Brown Universities, defined a romantic partner as ‘someone whom you were dating or in a romantic relationship with at the time of the physical intimacy’.
A spokeswoman for the research team said: ‘Hook-up behaviour during college was positively correlated with experiencing clinically significant depression symptoms.
‘Sex in the context of romantic relationships was not correlated with depression. There are several reasons why hooking up, but not romantic sex, may be associated with poor mental health among women.
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Similarly, in a study of 832 college students, 26 percent of women and 50 percent of men reported feeling positive after a hookup, and 49 percent of women and 26 percent of men reported a negative reaction (the remainders for each sex had a mix of both positive and negative reactions; Owen et al., 2010).
