Masculine gender role discrepancy strain and self-esteem.

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina M. Rummell ◽  
Ronald F. Levant
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Masculine Gender ◽  
Role Discrepancy

Correlates of Men’s Bystander Intervention to Prevent Sexual and Relationship Violence: The Role of Masculine Discrepancy Stress

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988099
Author(s):  
Danielle S. Berke ◽  
Ruschelle M. Leone ◽  
Courtland S. Hyatt ◽  
Amos Zeichner ◽  
Dominic J. Parrott
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Bystander Intervention ◽  
Relationship Violence ◽  
Bystander Behavior ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Conditional Indirect Effects ◽  
Bystander Behaviors ◽  
Masculine Gender ◽  
Role Discrepancy

Extant literature suggests that men may be less likely than women to engage in prosocial bystander behavior to interrupt sexual and relationship violence. However, there has been little consideration of the influence of masculine gender role discrepancy and masculine discrepancy stress (i.e., stress that occurs when men perceive themselves as falling short of traditional gender norms) on men’s bystander beliefs and behaviors. The current study fills an important gap in the literature by assessing the influence of masculine gender role discrepancy and masculine discrepancy stress on a range of prosocial bystander behaviors through their influence on the bystander decision-making process. Participants were 356 undergraduate men recruited from two different Southeastern U.S. universities who completed online surveys assessing self-perceptions of gender role discrepancy, consequent discrepancy stress, bystander decision-making, and bystander behavior in sexual and relationship violence contexts. Path models indicated significant conditional indirect effects of masculine gender role discrepancy on proactive bystander behaviors (i.e., behaviors related to making a plan in advance of being in a risky situation) and bystander behavior in drinking situations across levels of masculine discrepancy stress. Specifically, men who believed that they are less masculine than the typical man reported more pros to intervention in sexual and relationship violence than cons, and thus reported intervening more, but only if they were high in masculine discrepancy stress. Findings suggest that bystander intervention programs should explicitly address and challenge rigid expectations of what it means to be “manly” to transform gender expectations perpetuating sexual and relationship violence.

Accentuating Your Masculine Side

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chongzeng Bi ◽  
Oscar Ybarra ◽  
Yufang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Agency And Communion

Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits dominate self-evaluation by expanding the purview of the fundamental dimensions to consider characteristics typically studied in the gender-role literature, but that nevertheless should be related to agency and communion. Further, we carried out these tests on two samples from China, a cultural context that, relative to many Western countries, emphasizes the interpersonal or communion dimension. Despite the differences in traits used and cultural samples studied, the findings generally supported the agency dominates self-esteem perspective, albeit with some additional findings in Study 2. The findings are discussed with regard to the influence of social norms and the types of inferences people are able to draw about themselves given such norms.

Hwa-Byung Among Middle-Aged Korean Women: Family Relationships, Gender-Role Attitudes, and Self-Esteem

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 495-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunha Kim ◽  
Ingrid Hogge ◽  
Peter Ji ◽  
Young R. Shim ◽  
Catherine Lothspeich
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Middle Aged
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