Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College.
Am Psychol. 2022 Apr;77(3):321-332. doi: 10.1037/amp0000929.
We present a conceptual framework for relational interventions focused on helping boys and men navigate harmful socialization occurring in U.S. dominant culture, one which upholds a restrictive image of manhood that gives rise to health problems and social injustice. Drawing from relational-cultural theory, we frame the crises linked to hegemonic masculine socialization as shaped by interpersonal and sociocultural disconnections that keep boys and men in rigid confines of what is expected of "real men," which are detrimental to their well-being and operate to maintain oppression and violence. To work against the relational and societal ways that hegemonic masculinity is taught and reinforced, we view boys' and men's experiences in connection with others and in community as the central context in which healthy masculinities develop. Experiences in growth-fostering relationships of empathy, mutuality, and empowerment can help boys and men reject hegemonic relational dynamics and promote human capacities for vulnerability, connection, and compassion into healthy and flexible ways of being men in the world. We view these relational experiences as critical to prevention, health promotion, and social change efforts at the social, community, and systems levels. To that end, we offer recommendations for interventions to engage boys and men in collectively dismantling hegemonic masculinity and developing healthy masculinities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
我们提出了一个关注帮助男孩和男性应对美国主流文化中有害社会化的关系干预概念框架，这种社会化推崇一种限制男性形象的观点，导致了健康问题和社会不公。从关系文化理论出发，我们将与霸权男性社会化相关的危机框架化为人际和社会文化脱节的结果，这些脱节使男孩和男性局限于“真正的男人”所期望的僵化范围内，这对他们的幸福不利，并有助于维持压迫和暴力。为了反对霸权男性气质被教授和强化的关系和社会方式，我们将男孩和男性与他人和社区的联系中的经历视为健康男性气质发展的核心背景。在富有同理心、相互尊重和赋权的成长关系中的经历，可以帮助男孩和男性拒绝霸权关系动态，并以健康和灵活的方式促进人类的脆弱性、联系和同情心，成为世界上的男人。我们认为这些关系经历对于在社会、社区和系统层面进行预防、促进健康和社会变革努力至关重要。为此，我们提出了干预建议，以促使男孩和男性共同拆除霸权男性气质并发展健康的男性气质。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
