When students enter the campus of a University, it is not just studies. The hormonal changes those are apt for their age attract them towards opposite sex and seek thrilling by experimenting sexual encounters. They explore it as a thing of joy. But the level of joy differs from person to person depending on their emotional maturity, according to a study of the University of Alberta psychologists, who concluded that emotionally mature students get more positive benefits from sex.
University of Albreta researchers studied the experiences of first-year students. Students shared their emotional experiences corresponding to their sexual behaviours, which included oral and penetrative intercourse. The responses indicate a clear connection between emotional maturity and sexual satisfaction.
“Students who are essentially on the correct developmental time line with respect to maturity experience sexual behaviour in a positive way," said Dalton. "Immature students, in particular, seem to have negative experiences associated with their sexual behaviour."
So far, the thinking in campuses by professors about the sex of students is negative. The study indicates that sex need not be a bad thing for the students who are matured emotionally and psychologically. For such students, sex, is beneficial.
On the contrary, according to the study, immature students and emotionally poor guys visualise sex as bad thing. Another factor is the distance from home. Students living outside their homes suffer more from negative emotions. They face a lot of stress as the university campus is the transition from home to new social surroundings. In such circumstances, the study says, sexual intimacy helps them to cope up with such blues.
"There seems to be some kind of compensatory effect of sexual behaviour that brings that negative emotion right down," she said. "That was unexpected but interesting, and was another side of what the relation between emotion and sexual relations might mean for students."
But students should not come to a conclusion based on the research to equate having sex and emotional maturity.
Dalton says, " It is a goal of healthy human development to include healthy sexuality as well."
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