Male gender role conflict as seen through the muscularity concerns of self -identified Latino men
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Title
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Male gender role conflict as seen through the muscularity concerns of self -identified Latino men
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:14c467352590:10200
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identifier
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10305
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Creator
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Mejias, Juan Carlos,
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Contributor
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Elliot Jurist
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Date
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2009
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Clinical psychology | Gender studies | Hispanic American studies | body image | gender roles | Latino | muscularity
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Abstract
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The purpose of the proposed research is to contribute to the emerging field of male psychology. Over the last twenty years, as more insight has been made into the challenges that shape female development, some researchers have turned their attention to the study of male psychological development, from childhood to late adulthood. At the heart of this new area of psychology is the contradiction between what is socially sanctioned for men (expectations such as independence, assertiveness, stoicism) and what is often criticized of them (emotionally unavailable/inexpressive, lack of family involvement, fear of intimacy). The result of this contradiction in the socialization of males is called male gender role conflict.;Dovetailing with this line of research was an interest in male body image after years of research on women and eating disorders. Researchers found that whereas women strived to be thinner, men often strived to be more muscular. The proposed study seeks to examine the possible connection between male gender role conflict and the importance of muscularity in Latino men raised in the United States.;For the current study, two hypotheses were tested. First, using the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) and normative data on men of different ethnic groups, the Latino men in the study demonstrated comparable scores with previous research of Latino men. However they did show significantly higher GRC scores than European and African-American men in the "Success, Power, Competition" subscale. Secondly, using the Swansea Muscularity Attitudes Questionnaire (SMAQ), a positive correlation was found between scores on the GRCS and scores on the SMAQ so that as GRCS scores increased, so too did scores on the SMAQ.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
