Reidy Dennis E, Berke Danielle S, Gentile Brittany, Zeichner Amos
Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.
Pers Individ Dif. 2014 Oct;68:160-164. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.021.
Research on gender roles suggests that men who strongly adhere to traditional masculine gender norms are at increased risk for the perpetration of violent and abusive acts toward their female intimate partners. Yet, gender norms alone fail to provide a comprehensive explanation of the multifaceted construct of intimate partner violence (IPV) and there is theoretical reason to suspect that men who fail to conform to masculine roles may equally be at risk for IPV. In the present study, we assessed effect of masculine , a form of distress arising from perceived failure to conform to socially-prescribed masculine gender role norms, on IPV. Six-hundred men completed online surveys assessing their experience of discrepancy stress, masculine gender role norms, and history of IPV. Results indicated that masculine discrepancy stress significantly predicted men's historical perpetration of IPV independent of other masculinity related variables. Findings are discussed in terms of potential distress engendered by masculine socialization as well as putative implications of gender role discrepancy stress for understanding and intervening in partner violence perpetrated by men.
关于性别角色的研究表明，严格遵循传统男性性别规范的男性对其女性亲密伴侣实施暴力和虐待行为的风险会增加。然而，仅靠性别规范并不能全面解释亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）这一复杂概念，而且从理论上讲，那些不符合男性角色的男性同样可能面临亲密伴侣暴力的风险。在本研究中，我们评估了男性气质（一种因感知到不符合社会规定的男性性别角色规范而产生的苦恼形式）对亲密伴侣暴力的影响。600名男性完成了在线调查，评估他们的差异压力体验、男性性别角色规范以及亲密伴侣暴力史。结果表明，男性气质差异压力显著预测了男性过去实施亲密伴侣暴力的情况，且不受其他与男性气质相关变量的影响。我们从男性社会化可能产生的潜在苦恼以及性别角色差异压力对理解和干预男性实施的伴侣暴力的假定影响等方面对研究结果进行了讨论。
