@article{ref1,
title="College students' conformity to masculine role norms and help-seeking intentions for suicidal thoughts",
journal="Psychology of men and masculinity",
year="2018",
author="McDermott, Ryon C. and Smith, Phillip N. and Borgogna, Nicholas C. and Booth, Nathan and Granato, Stephani and Sevig, Todd D.",
volume="19",
number="3",
pages="340-351",
abstract="The present study tested a model interrelating intentions to seek psychological help for suicidal thoughts with conformity to 9 masculine role norms: winning, emotional control, risk-taking, violence, power over women, playboy, self-reliance, primacy of work, and heterosexual self-presentation. In addition, the present study examined the effects of contextual variables, such as participants' gender or race and whether one is seeking formal help (i.e., from a psychologist, medical doctor, or phone line) or informal help (i.e., from a parent, friend, partner, or relative). Structural equation modeling with a college student sample (N = 2,504) indicated that conformity to masculine role norms of emotional control and self-reliance produced the strongest and most robust associations with intentions to seek formal or informal help. Violence, power over women, and heterosexual self-presentation norms also evidenced modest relationships with help-seeking intentions but were significantly stronger for the informal help-seeking scenario. Winning yielded a statistically stronger relationship with help-seeking intentions for the formal help scenario. Measurement and structural invariance tests indicated that race did not moderate the associations between conformity to masculine role norms and help-seeking intentions, whereas mixed evidence suggested that women may have a stronger relationship between the playboy norm and intentions to seek informal help compared with men. These findings highlight the multidimensional nature of masculine roles and suggest that norms of self-reliance and emotional control may be the most salient help-seeking barriers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1524-9220",
doi="10.1037/men0000107",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/men0000107"
}