Giving Boys A Bigger Emotional Toolbox
How Learning Emotional Skills Can Help Boys Become Men
An evolutionary model to conceptualise masculinity and compassion in male teenagers: A unifying framework
This article examines masculinity and compassion through an evolutionary perspective, with an aim to demonstrate how compassion can help adolescent boys with hegemonic masculine identities.
Heterosexual men in Trump’s America downplay compassion more for masculine (than for feminine) gay victims of hate crime: Why?
Why would heterosexual men downplay their compassion for masculine (vs. feminine) gay victims of hate crime? Two social identity-inspired explanations provide contrasting answers to this question.
Role of masculinity in relationships between mindfulness, self-compassion, and well-being in military veterans
This research examined the interrelationships among masculinity, mindfulness, and self-compassion as well as how these variables predict well-being (coping and quality of life) in 164 military veterans.
Pre-adolescent chumship as a buffer against psychopathology in adolescents with weak family support and weak parental bonding
This study examines the degree to which the existence of a pre-adolescent ‘chum’ interacts with family and social environments to buffer mental distress in adolescents.
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Paternal Involvement With Infants Scale
This project aims to develop a psychometrically sound, theoretically grounded instrument of father involvement.
Precarious Manhood
This article reviews 5 studies that show manhood is a socially constructed precarious state that must be continually proved and validated.
Precarious manhood and men’s physical health around the world
This cross-cultural study from 62 countries shows an association between precarious manhood beliefs and risk-related health behaviors and outcomes.
Predictors of men’s psychotherapy preferences
This study examined men’s perceptions and preferences for four types of psychotherapy: Psychodynamic therapy (PDT), Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Positive psychology-positive masculinity therapy (PPPMT), and Person-centered therapy (PCT).
Masculinity and barriers to seeking counseling: the buffering role of self-compassion
his study examined whether self-compassion moderated the relationship between masculine norm adherence and both help-seeking self-stigma and the risks associated with self-disclosing to a counselor
Of Compassion and Men: Using Compassion Focused Therapy in Working with Men.
This chapter “gives examples of the clinical application of using compassion-focused therapy (CFT) with men to show how specific challenges to men can be worked through with CFT
Compassion-focused therapy group for men with intellectual disabilities who had maladaptive conceptualisations of masculinity.
The purpose of this paper was to determine the effectiveness of an adapted compassion-focused therapy (CFT) group treatment programme for individuals with an intellectual disability (ID), specifically aimed to help address maladaptive conceptualisations of masculinity.
Help seeking in men: When masculinity and self-compassion collide.
This study finds that independent of masculinity, self-compassion predicted more…understanding of help seeking in men by addressing the relationships between conformity to masculine norms and self-compassion.
Men’s self-compassion and self-esteem: The moderating roles of shame and masculine norm adherence
Results of this study demonstrated that higher levels of self-compassion were related to lower masculine norm adherence, lower trait shame, and higher self-esteem.
Mental health shame of UK construction workers: relationship with masculinity, work motivation and self-compassion.
The purposes of this study were to investigate relationships among mental health shame, mental health problems, masculinity, self-compassion, and motivation, and examine whether self-compassion would mediate the relationship between mental health shame and mental health problems” amongst construction workers.
A relational-cultural framework for promoting healthy masculinities
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.
Exploring self-compassion and versions of masculinity in men athletes
The findings of this study support self-compassion as a promising resource for men athletes to buffer emotionally difficult sport experiences.
‘That’s how I am dealing with it – that is dealing with it’: exploring men athletes’ self-compassion through the lens of masculinity
The purpose of this study “was to explore men athletes’ lived experiences of self-compassion through the lens of masculinity.
Men’s perinatal mental health in the transition to fatherhood
An overview of the key factors which research and theory suggest inform new fatherhood, along with an in-depth look at paternal postpartum depression.
Expanding the international conversation with fathers’ mental health: toward an era of inclusion in perinatal research and practice
An overview of paternal perinatal mental health, leading tools to assess paternal depression and anxiety, the impact of paternal mental health on mother and child health, and future directions for the field
¡Qué Padre! Measuring Latino Fathers’ Involvement with Infants
This study examines the psychometric properties and correlates of an existing measure of father involvement with infants, The Paternal Involvement with Infants scale (PIWIS), with Latino fathers