Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations

Jennifer Bosson , Paweł Jurek , Joseph Vandello , Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka , Michał Olech , Tomasz Besta , Michael Bender , Vera Hoorens , Maja Becker (1) , A. Timur Sevincer , Deborah 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 Dandy , 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 Hutchings , Dorthe Høj Jensen , Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti , Serdar Karabati , Kaltrina Kelmendi , Gabriella Kengyel , Narine Khachatryan , Rawan Ghazzawi , Mary Kinahan , Teri 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 Maitner , Elena Makarova , Ana Makashvili , Shera Malayeri , Sadia Malik , Tiziana Mancini , Claudia Manzi , Silvia Mari , Sarah Martiny , Claude-Hélène Mayer , Vladimir Mihić , Jasna Milošević Đorđević , Eva Moreno-Bella , Silvia Moscatelli , Andrew Bryan Moynihan , Dominique Muller , Erita Narhetali , Félix Neto , Kimberly Noels , Boglárka Nyúl , Emma O’connor , Danielle 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 (1) , Michelle 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 Sullivan , Mariko Tatsumi , Lucy Tavitian-Elmadjian , Suparna Jain Thakur , Quang Thi Mong Chi , Beatriz Torre , Ana Torres , Claudio 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

1 CLLE-LTC - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

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.

Domaines: Psychologie; Psychologie

Jennifer Bosson, Paweł Jurek, Joseph Vandello, Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Michał Olech, et al.. Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2021, 52 (3), pp.231-258. ⟨10.1177/0022022121997997⟩. ⟨hal-03508458⟩