Psychology of Men & Masculinities

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Men & Masculinities is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Male victims of female-perpetrated intimate partner violence, help-seeking, and reporting behaviors: A qualitative study.60
Risk factors for paternal perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis.48
“No one would ever believe me”: An exploration of the impact of intimate partner violence victimization on men.47
Taking the black pill: An empirical analysis of the “Incel”.37
Manning up while growing up: A developmental-contextual perspective on masculine gender-role socialization in adolescence.27
Hidden in shame: Heterosexual men’s experiences of self-perceived problematic pornography use.26
Male victims of female-perpetrated partner violence: A qualitative analysis of men’s experiences, the impact of violence, and perceptions of their worth.24
Traditional masculinity ideology, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, and treatment in service members and veterans: A systematic review.23
Fathers’ parenting and coparenting behavior in dual-earner families: Contributions of traditional masculinity, father nurturing role beliefs, and maternal gate closing.19
Masculinity threat and implicit associations with feminine gay men: Sexual orientation, sexual stigma, and traditional masculinity.16
Where do I turn for help? Gender role conflict, self-stigma, and college men’s help-seeking for depression.15
Perspectives of respect, teacher–student relationships, and school climate among boys of color: A multifocus group study.15
Good for the goose and good for the gander: Examining positive psychological benefits of male allyship for men and women.14
“I felt like less than a shadow in the room”: Systematic review of the experiences and needs of new fathers.14
Associations between low-income nonresident fathers’ parenting identity and involvement with children.14
Asian American men’s body image concerns: A focus group study.14
Feelings of restriction and incompetence in parenting mediate the link between attachment anxiety and paternal postnatal depression.13
Designing body image and eating disorder prevention programs for boys and men: Theoretical, practical, and logistical considerations from boys, parents, teachers, and experts.13
Men who intervene to prevent sexual assault: A grounded theory study on the role of masculinity in bystander intervention.12
Psychometric properties of the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory among physically active Brazilian college men.12
Determinants of fathers’ and mothers’ involvement in a parenting intervention.12
Masculine gender role stress, low relationship power, and aggression toward intimate partners.12
Sensitivity and rough-and-tumble play in gay and heterosexual single-father families through surrogacy: The role of microaggressions and fathers’ rumination.11
More similar than different? Testing the construct validity of men’s and women’s traditional masculinity ideology using the Male Role Norms Inventory-Very Brief.11
Screening for mood difficulties in men in Italy and Australia using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the Matthey Generic Mood Questionnaire.11
“The real me shining through M.E.”: Visualizing masculinity and identity threat in men with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome using photovoice and IPA.11
Stay-at-home fathers, depression, and help-seeking: A consensual qualitative research study.11
How do Chinese fathers express love? Viewing paternal warmth through the eyes of Chinese fathers, mothers, and their children.10
Fathering: New perspectives, paradigms, and possibilities.10
Pilot evaluation of the men in mind training program for mental health practitioners.10
Measurement invariance of three gender ideology scales across cis, trans, and nonbinary gender identities.10
We (want to) believe in the best of men: A qualitative analysis of reactions to #Gillette on Twitter.10
Investigating the cultivation of masculinity and body self-attitudes for users of mobile dating apps for men who have sex with men.9
Men’s talk about anxiety online: Constructing an authentically anxious identity allows help-seeking.9
Social networking sites and men’s drive for muscularity: Testing a revised objectification model.9
Linking alcohol-specific masculine norms and drinking behavior among Latino men.9
Gender belief systems through the lens of culture—Differences in precarious manhood beliefs and reactions to masculinity threat in Poland and Norway.9
“We don’t talk about feelings or struggles like that”: White men’s experiences of eating disorders in the workplace.9
No pain, no gains: Conformity to masculine norms, body dissatisfaction, and exercise dependence.9
Extending the gender role strain paradigm to account for U.S. males’ gun violence.9
Gender stereotypes and parental status: A comparison of fathers, mothers, and the childless-by-choice.9
Victims of virility: Honor endorsement, stigma, and men’s use of erectile dysfunction medication.8
Testing the father–child activation relationship theory: A replication study with low-income unmarried parents.8
The longitudinal effects of rape myth beliefs and rape proclivity.8
Do “manly” men believe other men are happier? Social comparison, masculine norms, and positive work–family spillover.8
Psychometric properties of the Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Scale for use with fathers during pregnancy.8
Stereotype awareness and Black fathers’ paternal engagement: At the nexus of racial and fathering identities.8
Faded fresh tapers and line-ups: Centering barbershop hair stories in understanding gendered racial socialization for black men.8
Policing of Masculinity Scale (POMS) and pressures boys experience to prove and defend their “manhood”.8
An examination of emerging adult military men: Masculinity and U.S. military climate.8
Perceived helpfulness and engagement in mental health treatment: A study of male survivors of sexual abuse.7
Shape-up: Efficacy of a culturally responsive barbershop-based violence reduction intervention RCT for young Black men.7
The Latino father in the postnatal period: The role of egalitarian masculine gender role attitudes and coping skills in depressive symptoms.7
The “white knight” effect: Benevolent sexism accounts for bystander intervention in party situations among high status men.7
Role of masculinity in relationships between mindfulness, self-compassion, and well-being in military veterans.7
You don’t know where he’s been: Sexual promiscuity negatively affects responses toward both gay and straight men.7
Predicting men’s acceptance of sexual violence myths through conformity to masculine norms, sexism, and “locker room talk”.7
Association between psychotherapy use, sexual orientation, and traditional masculinity among psychologically distressed men.6
Bisexual men’s sexual health: A test of minority stress theory.6
The lived experience of adjustment to prostate cancer.6
Experiences of discrimination are associated with drive for muscularity among African American men.6
Self-compassion and body dissatisfaction in men: Extension of the tripartite influence model.6
The military hypermasculine mystique: Sex, status, and emotional control at the United States Military Academy.6
Fraternities as settings for sexual assault: The relationships of traditional masculine norms climates and sexual assault attitudes.6
“Who pushes you to be bigger?”: Psychosocial correlates of muscle dissatisfaction among Chinese male college students in Hong Kong.6
Sexual orientation, eating disorder classification, and men’s psychosocial well-being.6
The masculinity-based model of Aggressive Retaliation in Society (MARS).6
Contextual adversity and rural Black men’s masculinity ideology during emerging adulthood.6
“I don’t know what the hell you’d call it”: A qualitative thematic synthesis of men’s experiences with sexual violence in adulthood as contextualized by hegemonic masculinity.6
Extrapolating stereotypical information on sexual orientation from race categories: The case of Black and Asian men.5
Masculine depression: A person-centric perspective.5
Psychosocial barriers to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake: The roles of heterosexual self-presentation, sexual risk, and perceived peer prep use.5
Color him father: Generative parenting among low-income, urban-residing, coresidential Black fathers.5
Status loss due to COVID-19, traditional masculinity, and their association with recent suicide attempts and suicidal ideation.5
The precarious masculinity of firearm ownership.5
Latino resident fathers’ early involvement with infants.5
Masculine norms and college men’s rape myth acceptance: The mediating role of nurturance.5
Masculinity threat increases bias and negative emotions toward feminine gay men.5
Dating apps, sexual orientation, and male body image: An investigation in Singaporean and Swedish samples.5
The assessment of subjective masculine norms in the United States.5
The effects of gender role conflict restricted emotionality on the association between exposure to trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder and intimate partner violence severity.5
Barriers to help-seeking for eating disorders in men: A mixed-methods systematic review.5
“Male privilege doesn’t lift the social status of all men in the same way”: Trans masculine individuals’ lived experiences of male privilege in the United States.5
The importance of father involvement for adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms.5
Barriers to and facilitators of help-seeking behavior among Israeli men who experience intimate partner violence: A qualitative study.5
Associations between men’s and women’s conformity to masculine role norms and firearm ownership: Contributions beyond, race, gender, and political ideology.5
Psychology of Men and Masculinities’ focus on positive aspects of men’s functioning: A content analysis and call to action.4
“Stammering less so that I can be more of a man”: Discourses of masculinities among young adult men in the Western Cape, South Africa, who stutter.4
The super man: Examining associations between childhood superhero imaginative play and wishful identification and emerging adult men’s body image and gender beliefs.4
Is traditional masculinity ideology stable over time in men and women?4
Substance use risk among Asian American men: The role of gendered racism, internalization of western muscularity ideals, interpersonal and body shame, and drive for muscularity.4
Minority stressors and connectedness among urban gay, bisexual, and queer men.4
Masculinities made visible: A critical discursive psychology study of Instagram photos.4
“She convinced me I had Alzheimer’s”: Experiences of intimate partner violence in older men.4
What does it mean to be a real man? Asian American college men’s masculinity ideology.4
Gender segregation in culturally feminized work: Theory and evidence of boys’ capacity for care.4
The politics of men’s and women’s traditional masculinity ideology in the United States.4
The interaction of child–father attachment and child–mother attachment in the prediction of observed coparenting.4
“I didn't know who to talk to”: Black college men’s sources and descriptions of social support.4
Sexual assault and emotional eating among Latino college students.4
Sexual orientation-based differential item functioning in measures of body image concerns and ideals among men.3
“It’s an ongoing process”: A qualitative analysis of men’s feminist identity growth.3
Perceptual and attitudinal body image, disordered eating, and muscle-building behavior in college men.3
Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of a German-language Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory among cisgender sexual minority and heterosexually identified women and men.3
Social contact, time alone, and parental subjective well-being: A focus on stay-at-home fathers using the American Time Use Survey.3
Peer support of fathers on Reddit: Quantifying the stressors, behaviors, and drivers.3
Moderating effects of minority stress on the association between adherence to norms of masculinity and psychological well-being in a diverse sample of gay male emerging adults.3
Deploying hegemonic masculinity: A study of uses of the concept in the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities.3
Men with breast cancer and their encounters with masculinity: An interpretative phenomenological analysis using photography.3
Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities.3
Constructing narratives of masculinity: Online followers of Jordan B. Peterson.3
Utilizing Goffman’s concepts of impression management and stigma in understanding the aftermath of officer-involved shootings: Exploring the intersection with masculinity.3
Precarious manhood and men’s physical health around the world.3
Yes, (most) men know what rape is: A mixed-methods investigation into college men’s definitions of rape.3
Transformative moments among men in the midst of parallel play.3
Interpreting fatherhood after donation: Social representations and identity resonances among men having assisted a lesbian couple in becoming parents.3
Masculinity ideologies, sensitivity to masculinity threats, and fathers’ involvement in housework and childcare among U.S. employed fathers.3
With great power comes great responsibility: A content analysis of masculinity themes in superhero movies.3
Men’s stress expression and perception of partner’s support within the romantic relationships: A systematic review.2
The effect of state, trait, and situational factors on young men’s coercive condom use resistance.2
Male privilege awareness and relational well-being at work: An allyship pathway.2
Third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence victimization in men.2
An exploratory study of men’s access to mental health services.2
The Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory-30: Validity and measurement invariance of a Russian-language version.2
Males’ stories of unwanted sexual experiences: A qualitative analysis.2
Outcomes of a gender-sensitized health behavior program delivered through a professional sports club.2
The impact of college men’s sexual coercion perpetration on proclivity toward sexual assault and their cognitive and emotional reactions.2
Conformity to masculine norms: Differences between men with and without a disability.2
Men’s head and heart: Health beliefs mediating depression’s relationship to heart-healthy behaviors.2
Russian version of the Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form: Structure, validity, and measurement invariance.2
“We are okay to be ourselves”: Understanding gay men’s friendships with heterosexual and gay men.2
Football players’ beliefs about masculinity, affection between men, and gay teammates.2
Masculine honor endorsement is linked with stigmatization of men who have been sexually assaulted.2
Traditional masculinities and men’s sexism: A meta-analysis.2
Predicting Canadian first-time fathers’ early childcare involvement behaviors using an extended theory of planned behavior.2
Examining father status and purpose to understand new dads’ healthier lives.2
Men who endorse hostile sexism feel vulnerable and exploited when seeking support in close relationships.2
Racial discrimination, gender role conflict, and depression in college men of color: A longitudinal test of the racist-gender stress model.2
Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery: A modified Delphi study with lived-experience experts.2
Message framing for men? Gender moderated effects of culturally targeted message framing on colorectal cancer screening receptivity among African Americans.2
“You get more training to drive a car”: Examining the parenting experiences and service needs of nonresident fathers who are experiencing homelessness.2
African American manhood and self-rated health: What demographic characteristics, health conditions, and aspects of manhood matter?2
An examination of pubertal timing effects on drive for muscularity in men.2
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