Male rates of suicide are significantly higher than female rates in Ireland and other Western countries, yet the process and detail of men's suicidal action is relatively unknown. This is partly due to prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches. In this area of study, macro-level, quantitative approaches predominate; and theoretical frameworks tend to adopt unitary notions of men, as ...

This paper explores the empirical validity of the masculine overcompensation thesis, which asserts that men react to masculine insecurity with extreme demonstrations of masculinity. Overcompensation, an often-cited popular account for exaggerated masculine-typed behaviors, is supported by theoretical work in the masculinities and identity theory literatures. I tested the masculine overcompensat...

background and aim: maternal concept is part of the feminine gender role. the important part of the maternal concept is the unique relationship experience between mother and child that begins with  maternal-fetal attachment(mfa) during pregnancy. the aim of this study is predict the mfa according to gender role in pregnant women in shiraz city. methods:this descriptive correlational study was c...

BACKGROUND To date, whilst there have been many published studies exploring the links between masculinity and HIV, not much work has been done to explore how an HIV-positive diagnosis impacts men's sense of masculinity and contextualizing the masculinities as fluid and changing. OBJECTIVE To explore how human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) impacts the lives of men and their constructions of mas...

OBJECTIVES Evolutionary psychologists claim that women have adaptive preferences for specific male physical traits. Physical strength may be one of those traits, because recent research suggests that women rate faces of physically strong men as more masculine, dominant, and attractive. Yet, previous research has been limited in its ability to statistically map specific male facial shapes and fe...

Men with low testosterone (feminine men) invest in relationships and offspring more than men with high testosterone (masculine men). Women's attraction to testosterone dependent traits (e.g. masculine face shape) is enhanced during the late-follicular, fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Attractive, feminine women have stronger preferences for masculine men as possible long-term partners than...