Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology • Vol/Iss. 52 (4) • SAGE Publications • Newbury Park, CA • Published In • Pages: 1-28 •
By Bosson, Jennifer K., Jurek, Pawel, Vandello, Joseph A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Olech, Michal, Besta, Tomasz, Bender, Michael, Hoorens, Vera, Becker, Maja, Sevincer, A. Timur, Best, Deborah L., Safdar, Saba, Wlodarczyk, Anna, Zawisza, Magdalena, Abuhamdeh, Sami, Agyemang, Collins Badu, Akbas, Gulcin, Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan, Ammirati, Soline, Anderson, Joel, Zukauskiene, Rita, et al.

Hypothesis

"The precarious manhood beliefs will correlate at least moderately positively with hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, hostility towards men, and benevolence towards men at the individual and country levels" (p.9)

Note

Because this hypothesis includes multiple different correlations, a range of coefficients is given below.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
UNKNOWNSupportedUNKNOWN0.33-0.71UNKNOWN

Related Hypotheses

Main AuthorHypothesis
Bosson, Jennifer K."The precarious manhood beliefs will correlate negatively with country-level Global Gender Gap Index and country-level Human Development Index, when controlling for hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, hostility towards men, and benevolence towards men" (p.9)
Bosson, Jennifer K."A five-factor model (with precarious manhood beliefs, hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, hostility towards men, and benevolence towards men as separate dimensions) should fit the data better than alternate one-factor and three-factor models and this five-factor model should demonstrate acceptable metric isomorphism across the individual and country levels" (p.9)
Silverman, PhilipThere will be a “substantial difference in deference behavior directed towards the elderly according to their sex” (104).
Minturn, Leigh"Societies in which homosexuality is a relatively accepted form of behavior for men have a higher incidence of homosexuality than do societies in which such behavior is condemned" (308)
Richardson, ThomasAmong European men, greater height will be negatively associated with support for government redistribution of wealth