Psychology of Men & Masculinities

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Men & Masculinities is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Taking the black pill: An empirical analysis of the “Incel”.51
Manning up while growing up: A developmental-contextual perspective on masculine gender-role socialization in adolescence.31
Good for the goose and good for the gander: Examining positive psychological benefits of male allyship for men and women.22
Fathers’ parenting and coparenting behavior in dual-earner families: Contributions of traditional masculinity, father nurturing role beliefs, and maternal gate closing.21
“I felt like less than a shadow in the room”: Systematic review of the experiences and needs of new fathers.21
Masculinity threat and implicit associations with feminine gay men: Sexual orientation, sexual stigma, and traditional masculinity.18
Masculine gender role stress, low relationship power, and aggression toward intimate partners.17
Fathering: New perspectives, paradigms, and possibilities.16
Designing body image and eating disorder prevention programs for boys and men: Theoretical, practical, and logistical considerations from boys, parents, teachers, and experts.16
Associations between low-income nonresident fathers’ parenting identity and involvement with children.15
Pilot evaluation of the men in mind training program for mental health practitioners.15
Social networking sites and men’s drive for muscularity: Testing a revised objectification model.14
Determinants of fathers’ and mothers’ involvement in a parenting intervention.14
How do Chinese fathers express love? Viewing paternal warmth through the eyes of Chinese fathers, mothers, and their children.14
Stereotype awareness and Black fathers’ paternal engagement: At the nexus of racial and fathering identities.13
The longitudinal effects of rape myth beliefs and rape proclivity.13
Men’s talk about anxiety online: Constructing an authentically anxious identity allows help-seeking.12
Gender belief systems through the lens of culture—Differences in precarious manhood beliefs and reactions to masculinity threat in Poland and Norway.12
Sensitivity and rough-and-tumble play in gay and heterosexual single-father families through surrogacy: The role of microaggressions and fathers’ rumination.12
Policing of Masculinity Scale (POMS) and pressures boys experience to prove and defend their “manhood”.12
Measurement invariance of three gender ideology scales across cis, trans, and nonbinary gender identities.11
Barriers to help-seeking for eating disorders in men: A mixed-methods systematic review.11
Extending the gender role strain paradigm to account for U.S. males’ gun violence.11
We (want to) believe in the best of men: A qualitative analysis of reactions to #Gillette on Twitter.10
Psychometric properties of the Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Scale for use with fathers during pregnancy.10
Victims of virility: Honor endorsement, stigma, and men’s use of erectile dysfunction medication.10
Association between psychotherapy use, sexual orientation, and traditional masculinity among psychologically distressed men.9
Bisexual men’s sexual health: A test of minority stress theory.9
Gender stereotypes and parental status: A comparison of fathers, mothers, and the childless-by-choice.9
Faded fresh tapers and line-ups: Centering barbershop hair stories in understanding gendered racial socialization for black men.9
“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.9
The Latino father in the postnatal period: The role of egalitarian masculine gender role attitudes and coping skills in depressive symptoms.9
Testing the father–child activation relationship theory: A replication study with low-income unmarried parents.9
Shape-up: Efficacy of a culturally responsive barbershop-based violence reduction intervention RCT for young Black men.9
Self-compassion and body dissatisfaction in men: Extension of the tripartite influence model.8
Fraternities as settings for sexual assault: The relationships of traditional masculine norms climates and sexual assault attitudes.8
The military hypermasculine mystique: Sex, status, and emotional control at the United States Military Academy.8
“Who pushes you to be bigger?”: Psychosocial correlates of muscle dissatisfaction among Chinese male college students in Hong Kong.8
The masculinity-based model of Aggressive Retaliation in Society (MARS).8
The importance of father involvement for adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms.7
The precarious masculinity of firearm ownership.7
Barriers to and facilitators of help-seeking behavior among Israeli men who experience intimate partner violence: A qualitative study.7
Masculinity threat increases bias and negative emotions toward feminine gay men.7
Peer support of fathers on Reddit: Quantifying the stressors, behaviors, and drivers.7
You don’t know where he’s been: Sexual promiscuity negatively affects responses toward both gay and straight men.7
Status loss due to COVID-19, traditional masculinity, and their association with recent suicide attempts and suicidal ideation.7
Masculine depression: A person-centric perspective.7
Dating apps, sexual orientation, and male body image: An investigation in Singaporean and Swedish samples.6
Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of a German-language Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory among cisgender sexual minority and heterosexually identified women and men.6
Minority stressors and connectedness among urban gay, bisexual, and queer men.6
Experiences of discrimination are associated with drive for muscularity among African American men.6
The interaction of child–father attachment and child–mother attachment in the prediction of observed coparenting.6
Message framing for men? Gender moderated effects of culturally targeted message framing on colorectal cancer screening receptivity among African Americans.6
Deploying hegemonic masculinity: A study of uses of the concept in the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities.6
Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities.6
Latino resident fathers’ early involvement with infants.6
Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery: A modified Delphi study with lived-experience experts.6
The super man: Examining associations between childhood superhero imaginative play and wishful identification and emerging adult men’s body image and gender beliefs.6
Men with breast cancer and their encounters with masculinity: An interpretative phenomenological analysis using photography.6
Contextual adversity and rural Black men’s masculinity ideology during emerging adulthood.6
Traditional masculinity ideology and psychotherapy treatment outcome for military service veteran men.6
Associations between men’s and women’s conformity to masculine role norms and firearm ownership: Contributions beyond, race, gender, and political ideology.6
Precarious manhood and men’s physical health around the world.6
“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.6
Racial discrimination, gender role conflict, and depression in college men of color: A longitudinal test of the racist-gender stress model.5
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.5
Men who endorse hostile sexism feel vulnerable and exploited when seeking support in close relationships.5
Constructing narratives of masculinity: Online followers of Jordan B. Peterson.5
Color him father: Generative parenting among low-income, urban-residing, coresidential Black fathers.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
“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.5
Internal structure and invariance analyses across gender of the German-language version of the Male Role Norm Inventory-Short Form.5
Is traditional masculinity ideology stable over time in men and women?5
Gender segregation in culturally feminized work: Theory and evidence of boys’ capacity for care.5
Masculinity ideologies, sensitivity to masculinity threats, and fathers’ involvement in housework and childcare among U.S. employed fathers.5
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.4
“It’s an ongoing process”: A qualitative analysis of men’s feminist identity growth.4
The politics of men’s and women’s traditional masculinity ideology in the United States.4
Masculinities made visible: A critical discursive psychology study of Instagram photos.4
“I didn't know who to talk to”: Black college men’s sources and descriptions of social support.4
Traditional masculinity and male violence against women: A meta-analytic examination.4
Yes, (most) men know what rape is: A mixed-methods investigation into college men’s definitions of rape.4
Perceptual and attitudinal body image, disordered eating, and muscle-building behavior in college men.4
Psychology of Men and Masculinities’ focus on positive aspects of men’s functioning: A content analysis and call to action.4
An exploratory study of men’s access to mental health services.3
“We are okay to be ourselves”: Understanding gay men’s friendships with heterosexual and gay men.3
With great power comes great responsibility: A content analysis of masculinity themes in superhero movies.3
Dilemmas of agency and blame in men’s talk about depression.3
African American manhood and self-rated health: What demographic characteristics, health conditions, and aspects of manhood matter?3
Male privilege awareness and relational well-being at work: An allyship pathway.3
Men’s stress expression and perception of partner’s support within the romantic relationships: A systematic review.3
The Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory-30: Validity and measurement invariance of a Russian-language version.3
Social contact, time alone, and parental subjective well-being: A focus on stay-at-home fathers using the American Time Use Survey.3
Traditional masculinities and men’s sexism: A meta-analysis.3
Outcomes of a gender-sensitized health behavior program delivered through a professional sports club.3
Third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence victimization in men.3
Sexual orientation-based differential item functioning in measures of body image concerns and ideals among men.3
Beyond violent extremism: A 3N perspective of inceldom.3
Masculine drinking norms and alcohol use in a national sample of NCAA male student-athletes.3
Transformative moments among men in the midst of parallel play.3
Evaluation of brief online interventions to increase sense of purpose for fathers living in the United States.2
Russian version of the Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form: Structure, validity, and measurement invariance.2
The association of genital appearance satisfaction, penis size importance, and penis-centric masculinity to chronically discriminatory ideologies among heterosexual men.2
The impact of college men’s sexual coercion perpetration on proclivity toward sexual assault and their cognitive and emotional reactions.2
Men’s head and heart: Health beliefs mediating depression’s relationship to heart-healthy behaviors.2
Revising the Male Rape Myths Scale.2
The struggle tells me I don’t belong, yet I will stand up and show up: A psychosociocultural exploration of how Latino/x male undergraduates’ name, process, and manifest their identities.2
Football players’ beliefs about masculinity, affection between men, and gay teammates.2
Incarcerated Black men’s restrictive emotionality: The influence of parental closeness and childhood abuse.2
Predicting Canadian first-time fathers’ early childcare involvement behaviors using an extended theory of planned behavior.2
The effect of state, trait, and situational factors on young men’s coercive condom use resistance.2
Why do men drop out of counseling/psychotherapy? An enhanced critical incident technique analysis of male clients’ experiences.2
Masculine honor endorsement is linked with stigmatization of men who have been sexually assaulted.2
Development and initial validation of the Masculine Sexual Entitlement Norms Scale.2
“I've got more of a role to play”: Australian fathers’ perspectives on parenting through the lens of COVID-19 lockdown.2
Masculinity contingency and intimate partner violence perpetration among men who have sex with men.2
Psychometric properties of the Male Body Attitudes Scale—Revised among Brazilian men.1
Mental health literacy of depression: A preregistered study reconsidering gendered differences using filmed disclosures.1
Masculinity contingency and consumer attitudes toward electric vehicles.1
Religion, psychiatric symptoms, and gender role conflict among incarcerated Black men.1
The ties that bind: An exploration of son-in-law and father-in-law relationships in Black families.1
“Act like a real man!” a novel examination of how socializing others to masculine honor-based norms bolsters men’s reputations.1
Men’s depressive symptoms, health beliefs, masculinity, and heart-healthy behaviors: Examining moderators of a mediated model.1
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and incarceration: The impact on sexual risk-taking, sexually transmitted infections, and depression among Black sexual minority men in HIV Prevention Trials Net1
The Fathers’ Current Expectations About Son’s Masculinity Scale (FCEASMS): Development and validation.1
When and why do men negotiate assertively? It depends on specific threats to their masculinity and the negotiation topic.1
Conformity to masculine norms and men’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.1
Normalizing gay and straight male friendships: A qualitative analysis of beliefs and attitudes in Canada and the United States.1
Psychology of men and masculinities: The journal of big ideas.1
A scar for life: Male breast cancer and the experience of the post-surgical body.1
Looking back and looking forward: Men and masculinity in psychological research on violence against women.1
Examining stigmatizing beliefs about PrEP use among Black sexual minority men: A test of explanatory mechanisms.1
To reconstruct or deconstruct? A fundamental question for the psychology of men and masculinities.1
Experiences of pregnancy loss in Israeli first-time expecting fathers: A qualitative study.1
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the associations between father and child anxiety and depression.1
Men in feminism: A self-determination perspective and goals for the future.1
Sex as a Commodity Scale: Development and initial validation.1
Supplemental Material for Gender Belief Systems Through the Lens of Culture—Differences in Precarious Manhood Beliefs and Reactions to Masculinity Threat in Poland and Norway1
Dimensions of father development and parenting: A person-centered approach of men attending a responsible fatherhood program.1
Not so random acts of violence: Shared social–ecological features of violence against women and school shootings.1
Perspectives of Black and Latinx youth on masculinity and health during community reentry after incarceration.1
Conformity to masculine norms, the Dark Tetrad, and men’s rape myth acceptance.1
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