Masculinity has been theorized to be an anxiety-provoking state. Consequently, many researchers have examined masculinity in relation to negative psychological outcomes such as anxiety, depression, and alcohol or substance use. However, emerging resear…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Development of the Gay Male Heterophobia Scale.
The current study presents the initial validation of a new 20-item measure of heterophobia, a construct frequently discussed but inadequately researched in the literature on gay men’s lives. This process included initial focus groups, exploratory and c…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Understanding variation in men’s help-seeking for cancer symptoms: A semistructured interview study.
Men appear more likely to delay seeking medical advice for cancer symptoms, resulting in later stage at diagnosis and poorer health outcomes. Limited research has investigated variation in men’s experiences of and responses to cancer symptoms. This stu…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: In search of positive masculine role norms: Testing the positive psychology positive masculinity paradigm.
Researchers using the positive psychology positive masculinity paradigm have advanced several aspects of masculinity that, in theory, represent socialized beliefs linked to healthy personal and relational outcomes in men. However, investigators have ye…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A path analysis of racially diverse men’s sexual victimization, risk-taking, and attitudes.
Nationally, 1 in 6 men report some form of sexual victimization in his lifetime, and rates differ across racial and ethnic groups. Although research has explored the relations between sexual victimization, sexual risk behavior, and sexual attitudes amo…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The phenomenology of military sexual trauma among male veterans.
Military sexual trauma (MST) has been studied extensively in women; however, knowledge regarding the ways in which men are affected by MST remains limited. The present study used a phenomenological approach to describe the lived experiences of men expo…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Incorporating traditional masculinity ideology into health promotion models: Differences for African American/Black and White men.
This study examined the inclusion of African American/Black and White men’s endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology into health promotion models addressing behaviors of physical activity, stress management, and health responsibility. Participan…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Multilevel influences on depressive symptoms among men in Bangladesh.
Depression is a worldwide problem and is especially prevalent in lower income countries with insufficient resources and widespread poverty, such as Bangladesh. Yet, multilevel determinants of depressive symptoms in men have not been studied in this con…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The crisis in achieving a sense of manhood among Israeli veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress symptoms.
Although war is a central setting in which men are judged by their success in meeting gendered societal expectations, literature regarding the effects of (a) exposure to a combat event and (b) combat-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) on a me…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Can image labels be used to reduce the impact of the muscular ideal in men?
Exposure to idealized media imagery has the potential to produce body dissatisfaction in men. The use of labels noting the unrealistic nature of idealized imagery has generally been unsuccessful for women. This is the first study to test whether inform…