Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations
Authors
Jennifer K. Bosson
Paweł Jurek
Joseph A. Vandello
Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka
Michał Olech
Tomasz Besta
Michael Bender
Vera Hoorens
Maja Becker
A. Timur Sevincer
Deborah L. Best
Saba Safdar
Anna Włodarczyk
Magdalena Zawisza
Magdalena Żadkowska
Sami Abuhamdeh
Collins Badu Agyemang
Gülçin Akbaş
Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir
Soline Ammirati
Joel Anderson
Gulnaz Anjum
Amarina Ariyanto
John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta
Mujeeba Ashraf
Aistė Bakaitytė
Chiara Bertolli
Dashamir Bërxulli
Chongzeng Bi
Katharina Block
Mandy Boehnke
Renata Bongiorno
Janine Bosak
Annalisa Casini
Qingwei Chen
Peilian Chi
Vera Cubela Adoric
Serena Daalmans
Justine K. Dandy, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Soledad de Lemus
Sandesh Dhakal
Nikolay Dvorianchikov
Sonoko Egami
Edgardo Etchezahar
Carla Sofia Esteves
Neto Felix
Laura Froehlich
Efrain Garcia-Sanchez
Alin Gavreliuc
Dana Gavreliuc
Ángel Gomez
Francesca Guizzo
Sylvie Graf
Hedy Greijdanus
Ani Grigoryan
Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska
Keltouma Guerch
Marie Gustafsson Sendén
Miriam-Linnea Hale
Hannah Hämer
Mika Hirai
Lam Hoang Duc
Martina Hřebíčková
Paul B. Hutchings
Dorthe Høj Jensen
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti
Serdar Karabati
Kaltrina Kelmendi
Gabriella Kengyel
Narine Khachatryan
Rawan Ghazzawi
Mary Kinahan
Teri A. Kirby
Monika Kovács
Desiree Kozlowski
Vladislav Krivoshchekov
Clara Kulich
Tai Kurosawa
Nhan Thi Lac An
Javier Labarthe
Ioana Latu
Mary Anne Lauri
Eric Mankowski
Abiodun Musbau Lawal
Junyi Li
Jana Lindner
Anna Lindqvist
Angela T. Maitner
Elena Makarova
Ana Makashvili
Shera Malayeri
Sadia Malik
Tiziana Mancini
Claudia Manzi
Silvia Mari
Sarah E. Martiny
Claude-Hélène Mayer
Vladimir Mihić
Jasna Milošević Đorđević
Eva Moreno-Bella
Silvia Moscatelli
Andrew B. Moynihan
Dominique Muller
Erita Narhetali
Félix Neto
Kimberly A. Noels
Boglárka Nyúl
Emma C. O’Connor
Danielle P. Ochoa
Sachiko Ohno
Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo
Randall Osborne
Maria Giuseppina Pacilli
Jorge Palacio
Snigdha Patnaik
Vassilis Pavlopoulos
Pablo Pérez de León
Ivana Piterová
Juliana Barreiros Porto
Angelica Puzio
Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna
Erico Rentería Pérez
Emma Renström
Tiphaine Rousseaux
Michelle K. Ryan
Mario Sainz
Marco Salvati
Adil Samekin
Simon Schindler
Masoumeh Seydi
Debra Shepherd
Sara Sherbaji
Toni Schmader
Cláudia Simão
Rosita Sobhie
Lucille De Souza
Emma Sarter
Dijana Sulejmanović
Katie E. Sullivan
Mariko Tatsumi
Lucy Tavitian-Elmadjian
Suparna Jain Thakur
Quang Thi Mong Chi
Beatriz Torre
Ana Torres
Claudio V. Torres
Beril Türkoğlu
Joaquín Ungaretti
Timothy Valshtein
Colette Van Laar
Jolanda van der Noll
Vadym Vasiutynskyi
Christin-Melanie Vauclair
Satu Venäläinen
Neharika Vohra
Marta Walentynowicz
Colleen Ward
Yaping Yang
Vincent Yzerbyt
Valeska Zanello
Antonella Ludmila Zapata-Calvente
Rita Žukauskienė
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Publisher
SAGE
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
39627
Funders
Funding information : https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022121997997
Abstract
Precarious 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.
DOI
10.1177/0022022121997997
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Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Vandello, J. A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Olech, M., Besta, T., ... Žukauskienė, R. (2021). Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(3), 231-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022121997997