Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations

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 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 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 Bryan 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

doi:10.1177/0022022121997997

Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations

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 AmmiratiJoel 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 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 Bryan 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

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	231-258
Number of pages	28
Journal	Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume	52
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022121997997
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021

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ambivalence toward men
ambivalent sexism
precarious manhood beliefs
psychometric isomorphism

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Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Vandello, J. A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Olech, M., Besta, T., Bender, M., Hoorens, V., Becker, M., Timur Sevincer, A., Best, D. L., Safdar, S., Włodarczyk, A., Zawisza, M., Żadkowska, M., Abuhamdeh, S., Badu Agyemang, C., Akbaş, G., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., ... 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

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