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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Masculine Norms"”.
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A study on the effect of fulfilling hegemonic masculine norms on men's health across regions
… the effect that fulfillment of traditional masculine gender norms has on men’s health (self-rated health) across different regions of the world. Regions include Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and English speaking countries (United States, …
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Willingness to Seek Professional Help for Suicidal Thoughts: The Role of Masculine Norms and Self-Stigma in Service Members
… suicidal thoughts. Self-stigma and conformity to masculine norms, which are evident in the military culture, have been demonstrated as barriers to care in civilians. This study sought to better understand how these two factors are related to willingness to seek professional help for suicidal …
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Masculinity, hardiness, and psychological well-being in male student veterans
… to understand how conformity to traditional masculine norms and psychological hardiness affect the psychological well being of male student-veterans in higher education. One-hundred and seventeen college-attending veterans and active-duty service members completed an Internet survey including …
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Engaging Men In Violence Prevention: Empirically Examining Theoretical Barriers and Catalysts
… challenging and ultimately changing the social norms that support it (Berkowitz, 2004). Though the number of violence prevention interventions for college men has recently increased (Clinton-Sherrod, et al., 2003), it is imperative that an understanding of barriers and catalysts for men's …
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Exploring masculinities in a microcosm : a qualitative study of men’s understanding of masculinities and gender-based violence (GBV) in a male prison population in South Africa (SA)
… in varying contexts, depending on societal norms, beliefs and cultures. Research in SA shows that some men who cannot attain financial dominance adopt violence towards ‘subordinate’ men and women as a means to ascertain their hegemony. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious issue globally, …
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Men, masculinities and HIV care work: A small-scale, exploratory study of the role of community care workers in supporting HIV positive men's health-seeking behaviour
… play in addressing harmful health-related gender norms and in supporting HIV positive men's health-affirming behaviour. The empirical analysis draws on the perspectives of eight CCWs and three of their male clients from the Cape Town area. Being problem-driven in nature and situated within a …
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Stay Brave My Hercules
… who all struggle in different ways to conform to masculine norms.</p> <p>In the second section, “Matsuri”, I explore the themes of family, loss, and devastation through the eyes of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans during World War II. In these stories, magical realism plays a heavy role in …
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To be [healthy] or not to be: Moderated moderation of the relationships between masculinity, future orientation, SES, and men’s health
… behaviors, despite potential violation of masculine norms. An additional countervailing mechanism may be future orientation, which is the ability to consider potential distal outcomes of immediate behaviors, and the extent to which immediate behaviors are driven by potential outcomes. The …
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Business Exits and Reentry: Demand and Supply Explanations of Entrepreneur Career Choices
… to informal (stigma of business failure, masculine norms) and formal (regulatory environment) institutional contexts. On the supply side, I develop propositions about cognitive aspects of business exits that influence the motivation of experienced entrepreneurs to engage in serial …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
… evidence of the active shaping of new national masculine norms of the 1950s and ’60s. These images exemplify the complicated racial, political, gendered, and cultural dimensions of German masculinity while also playing a direct role in ascribing new expectations of ideal male dress and …
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Identifying hegemonic masculinity in youth ice hockey programmes and investigating its effects on male players’ conduct on and off the ice
… ice hockey programmes, and how these gender norms influence male players' behaviour both on and off the ice. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with adolescent athletes and a thematic analysis of their experiences, the study explores the ways in which youth sport serves as a formative …
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF TIME TO PRESENTATION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT FOR INDIANA FARMERS WITH PROSTATE CANCER AND MEASUREMENTS OF TRADITIONAL MASCULINITY IDEOLOGY
… and the questionnaire was the 21-item Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form (MRNI-SF). Results: MRNI-SF results showed farmers endorsed traditional masculine norms. Specifically, they agreed with avoiding femininity, having negative attitudes towards sexual minorities, being self-reliant through …
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Opening the Chamber: Daughters of the Vote and Political Ambition in Young Women
… and institutionally entrenched barriers—such as masculine norms and partisan institutions—continue to deter many. These programs are a valuable tool for promoting young women’s political engagement and ambition, but their results will be constrained so long as societal and structural barriers …
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Examining men’s disclosures, influences, and motivations for seeking mental health treatment
… shame, and adherence to traditional masculine norms. The differences between these profiles were also examined using a multinomial logistic regression relating to men’s disclosure to seek therapy and the influence of a partner, parent, close friend, religious or spiritual leader, and …
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Development and validation of the Comfort and Conformity of Gender Expression Scale (CAGES)
… with two established scales, the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI) and the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory (CFNI). A total of 176 participants completed the revised CAGES and the CFNI and CMNI. Moderate to strong correlations were found between all four of the CAGES subscales …
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Dress to Repress: Exploring How Dress Codes & Norms Harm Black Women in the Workplace
… perceived professionalism that uphold White masculine norms in the workplace. At the crossroads of White male standards is Black women’s hairstyling habits. While some Black women may engage in impression management and straighten their hair to fit in more, others may not feel authentic with …
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Stay-at-home Father Families: Family Functioning and Experiences of Non-traditional Gender Roles
… fathers did not differ in terms of conforming to masculine norms in comparison to the other fathers in the sample, and the children too showed comparable gendered play behaviours across all family types. Child adjustment did not differ between family types; instead, family processes were more …
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Negotiating masculinities : studying risk behaviours associated with performances of 'coloured' masculinities
… asked: What levels of conformity to masculinity norms are expressed amongst a sample of 'coloured' men from two communities in Cape Town and how are these are related to their reported levels of gender role stress and risk -taking behaviours? The second question the study aimed to address asked: …
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Journeys towards well-being: men, meditation and mental health
… health (Gough, 2006). For example, traditional masculine norms, like ‘toughness,’ have been linked to poor emotional management skills in men, which in turn are implicated in mental health problems (Aldao et al., 2010). However, it is increasingly acknowledged that there is diversity within and …
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