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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Gender Role Stress"”.
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Men in Nursing: Masculine Gender Role Stress and Job Satisfaction
… with that turnover, are of concern. Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) may play a part in men's responses to nursing culture and settings, and may influence job satisfaction in a manner that affects behavior and tenure. This descriptive correlational study examined relationships between MGRS …
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Aggression: Relationships with Sex, Gender Role Identity, and Gender Role Stress.
<p>Sex, gender-role identity, and gender-role stress were assessed in terms of their relationship to observed gender differences in self-reported aggression. Physical and verbal aggression were explored, as well as the affective component of anger and cognitive component of hostility. The role of …
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The Feminine Gender Role Stress Scale: Development, Factor Analysis, and Preliminary Validation
… study was to develop a measure of feminine gender role stress appraisal (FGRS), the cognitive tendency to appraise threats and challenges to femininity as stressful. Stressors particularly salient for women were identified. Through factor analysis these stressors were categorized as …
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The associations between gender role stress, media usage, and metacognition in emerging adults
… between electronic media consumption and gender role stress and whether these relationships are dependent upon metacognitive abilities. Student participants (n = 238) between the ages of 18 and 25 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were recruited and completed self-report …
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The relationship of masculine gender role stress to emotional expressiveness, psychophysiological reactivity, and social support
… that the cultural imposition of masculine gender role norms contributes to physical and mental health disorders among men. The construct of masculine gender role stress (MGRS) is a gender based perspective of stress which posits that masculine gender role cognitive schemata are employed by …
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The Mediating Effect of Anger Proneness on the Relationship Between Masculine Gender Role Stress and Aggression
… the current study was to examine the mediating role of anger proneness in explaining the relationship between masculine gender role stress (MGRS) and aggression. Additionally, the moderating effect of anger proneness was also examined. Both physical and verbal forms of aggression were examined …
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Cardiovascular reactivity in men as a function of masculine gender role stress, Type-A behavior, and hostility
… on the construct and measurement of Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) validates the assumption of sex differences in the appraisal of stressful situations. The present study was designed to extend the validity of the construct, MGRS, by examining its association with a set of physiological …
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Cardiovascular reactivity to stress in men: effects of masculine gender role stress appraisal and masculine performance challenge
… heart disease. The present study examines the role of masculine cognitive appraisal of stress as a mediator of cardiovascular reactivity in men. The reactivity of men who differed on a measure of cognitive appraisal of masculine gender role stress (MGRS) was compared using the cold-pressor test …
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Femininity, Feminine Gender Role Stress, Body Dissatisfaction, and their Relationships to Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder
… that assessed femininity, feminine gender role stress, body dissatisfaction, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Results showed that body dissatisfaction mediates the relationship between femininity or feminine gender role stress with bulimia symptoms, as well as the relationship …
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Effects of Masculine Gender Role Stress and Pre-arousal on Men's Cognitive, Affective, and Physiological Responses to Intimate Conflict Situations
… research has indicated that the Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) scale has been useful in identifying men who are susceptible to appraising threat in situations that challenge their masculine gender roles. Furthermore, Zillmann's excitation-transfer theory has proposed that elevated …
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The effects of masculine gender role stress appraisal and gender relevance of the task on stress arousal in a competitive situation
In our society, gender role stereotypes define the areas in which men are thought to excel. Recent research has focused on the male gender role and how it effects the psychological and physical health of men. Maintaining an acceptable level of masculinity may be deleterious to men's physical and/or …
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The effects of female gender role appraisal and body image threat on the stress responses of women: a validation of the feminine gender role stress scale
… begin exploring the relationship between female gender role stress and eating disorders and 2) to validate the ability of the Feminine Gender Role Stress scale (FGRS; Gillespie, 1990) to distinguish between women who are more likely to evidence behavioral and physiological reactivity to a …
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Predictors and consequences of intimate partner violence impacting Korean women
… culture emphasizing traditional Korean women’s roles, patriarchal family structure, and passive police officers have had a tremendous influence on the other factors. Second, we focused on how behavior considered to be romantic in intimate relationships develops into IPV. We found that one …
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Cardiovascular reactivity in African American male college students
… American males' responses to such chronic stressors as racism. The present study set forth to study empirically the cognitive and physiological responsivity of young African American males to racially noxious stimuli. Given that African American males tend to have higher resting blood …
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Negotiating masculinities : studying risk behaviours associated with performances of 'coloured' masculinities
… aim of this thesis was to study masculinity roles and associated risk behaviours amongst a group of marginalised 'coloured' men from two deprived communities, one urban and one rural, in Cape Town, South Africa. To achieve this aim, the research examined two broad questions. The first …
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Parental and Social Influences Associated with the Development of Gender Role Conflict during Female Adolescences: As Related by Mature Women in Gender Variant Career Fields
… These interactions can provide strong gender role typecasting, especially in developing adolescents, and sets boundaries for social interaction, support, and peer group associations (Hall-Lande, Eisenberg, Christenson, & Sztainer, 2007). One critical phase of development occurs between …
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Stress and the feminine self-concept: responses to feminine and gender-neutral stressors as a function of feminine self-evaluation
Vulnerability to Feminine Gender Role Stress (FGRS), defined as the tendency to evaluate the self along feminine dimensions, was introduced as a psychosocial mediator between environmental stressors and maladaptive outcomes to explain the higher rate of particular mental health problems among women …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
… I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with incels, who believe that social liberalism, feminism, and more sexually active men (“Chads”) are to blame for their lack of sex with women. Incels are …
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Differences in men's emotional expression as a function of gender beliefs and contextual variables: partner gender and cues
… Deaux and Major's (1987) interactive model of gender-related behavior as a theoretical framework. This model explains gender differences in behavior as a function of proximal forces and contextual variables such as, activated gender-related schemata regarding oneself and others, and situational …
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First-Year Male Students' Adherence to Traditional Male Gender Roles and Their Attitudes toward Bystander Approach Behaviors to Stop Sexual Assault
… male students' adherence to traditional gender roles (masculinity) as measured by their reported level of stress and their attitudes toward bystander approach behaviors. The need for this specific research was evident given the lack of research studies on first-year male's socialization …