The purpose of this study was to compare the reasons why young adults skip and hop and when they last skipped and hopped. Retrospective data collected from 664 undergraduate students showed that the most common explanation for skipping was related to affect (54%), but the most common explanations for hopping were more functional. No significant differences appeared in the time frames of the participants' last remembered bout of skipping or hopping, although significantly more failed to remember the last time they hopped than the last time they skipped.
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