Social, Emotional, and Relational Distinctions in Patterns of Recent Masturbation Among Young Adults:

.................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 3 Demographic and Social Patterns in Previous Masturbation Estimates ............................................... 4 Masturbation and Emotional Well-Being ............................................................................................. 5 Analytic Approach: Data, Measures, and Methods .................................................................................. 6 Data Source ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Measures and Analytic Approach ......................................................................................................... 7 Results ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Masturbation and Recent Sexual Intercourse .................................................................................... 10 Masturbation and Emotion Wellbeing................................................................................................ 11 Multivariate Analyses.......................................................................................................................... 12 Discussion................................................................................................................................................ 14 What Seems Stable ............................................................................................................................. 14 What May Be Changing ....................................................................................................................... 15 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................... 15 References .............................................................................................................................................. 16 Table 1: Unweighted Summary Statistics by Gender .............................................................................. 18 Males ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Females ............................................................................................................................................... 18 Table 2: Odds Ratios from Logistic Regressions Predicting Masturbation Within the Past Day ............ 20 Table 3: Odds Ratios from Logistic Regressions Predicting Masturbation Within the Past Week ......... 21 Appendix A: Comparison of Weighted NFSS Results with Parallel National Survey Results .................. 22 Appendix B: Data Quality Checks ............................................................................................................ 23