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- Title
No Man Is an Island: Associations Between Adherence to Traditional Masculine Norms and Young Men's Psychosocial Adjustment.
- Authors
Montiel, Andrés; Quan, Cindy; Costigan, Catherine L.
- Abstract
Traditional masculinity regulates men s psychosocial adjustment in both adaptive and maladaptive ways. The aims of this study were twofold. First, we evaluated the conceptual distinctiveness between measures of adherence to masculinity: "other-oriented" (e.g., "A man should never admit when others hurt his feelings") versus "self-oriented" (e.g., "I tend to keep my feelings to myself"). Second, we determined how self- and other-oriented adherence to two masculine norms (i.e., self-reliance and emotional stoicism) predicted young men's psychosocial adjustment (i.e., depression, anxiety, life satisfaction, emotional support competence). Two independent samples of undergraduate students (N = 140; N = 101) completed self-report questionnaires using a cross-sectional survey. We assessed correlations among measures of adherence and used multiple linear regressions to predict adjustment. We found that reports of self-reliance and emotional stoicism were more strongly correlated within, rather than across, constructs of self- and other-oriented adherence. Further, in both samples, only self-oriented adherence to masculinity predicted adjustment. That is, personal adherence to self-reliance predicted higher depressive and anxiety symptoms, whereas personal adherence to emotional stoicism predicted lower emotional support competence. Predictions of life satisfaction were mixed. Overall, our findings challenge assumptions about the methodological equivalence of distinct measures of adherence to masculinity. Further, they support research showing associations between adherence to specific masculine norms and men's psychosocial maladjustment.
- Subjects
MASCULINITY; SOCIAL support; SOCIAL norms; SELF-evaluation; CROSS-sectional method; MULTIPLE regression analysis; SELF-perception; MEN; SATISFACTION; SELF-disclosure; UNDERGRADUATES; SURVEYS; QUESTIONNAIRES; MENTAL depression; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; PHILOSOPHY; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0008-400X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/cbs0000345