Vrangalopa's Self-Cognitive Theory

In the introduction, I stated my predictions, that the greater number of hookups a woman engages in decreases their self-esteem, while men who engaged in more hookups with different partners increase their self-esteem. I conclude that the results of my data did not find a significant difference. The findings of the current study are similar to the findings of Walsh (1991) that men had more sexual partners than women. In the current study, the results found similar findings that males had more sexual partners than females, but found that self-esteem was significantly different based on number of different partners amongst men and women. Also, based on Napper et al. (2016), found women experience more negative consequences than men do. In this …show more content…
The Vrangalova (2015) study focused on how high or low someone’s self-determination to engage in a hook up effected if one was going to behave in the risky behavior. Self-determination influenced the engagement of a hook-up which therefore, impacted self-esteem. Other explanations could be that women are not scrutinized or judged as harshly, because it has become more common. Also, a simple explanation could be that my sample was not equally split between females and males. My sample consisted majorly of females, which could have impacted why I found no significant difference between gender and self-esteem …show more content…
Also, if one engages in a hook up one can learn about the possible impacts or outcomes of hooking up effecting self-esteem. Also, it allows people to recognize stereotypes associated with hooking up that are misleading. The findings of the current study did not find a significant difference amongst gender and self-esteem scores. Other findings of the study did find an impact of emotional state and morals that are impacted after engaging in a hook-up. These findings are important to those who are involved in these behaviors and what the potential outcomes and impacts can affect a