Merry Young

• SOAR Position: Member; Alumni
• Major: Psychology
• Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Rebecca Oldham

Current Focus: The Relationship between Religion and Guilt after Sexual Encounters

Project Description

I studied how religion affects sex guilt via sexual attitudes, such as the importance of abstinence, communal attitudes about sex, and sociosexuality. I found that intended abstinence was the strongest mediator, those who intended to wait until marriage to have sex experienced the most guilt after having premarital sex.

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