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Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations
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posted on 2023-08-30, 18:17 authored by Jennifer K. Bosson, Pawel Jurek, Joseph A. Vandello, Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Michal Olech, Tomasz Besta, Michael Bender, Vera Hoorens, Maja Becker, Timur A. Sevincer, Deborah L. Best, Saba Safdar, Anna Wlodarczyk, Magdalena Zawisza, Magdalena Żadkowska, and about 150 othersPrecarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies and with country-level indices of gender equality and human development. Using data from university samples in 62 countries across 13 world regions (N = 33,417), we demonstrate: (1) the psychometric isomorphism of the PMB (i.e., its comparability in meaning and statistical properties across the individual and country levels); (2) the PMB’s distinctness from, and associations with, ambivalent sexism and ambivalence toward men; and (3) associations of the PMB with nation-level gender equality and human development. Findings are discussed in terms of their statistical and theoretical implications for understanding widely-held beliefs about the precariousness of the male gender role.
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52Issue number
3Page range
231-258Number of pages
28Publication title
Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologyISSN
1552-5422External DOI
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