James R Mahalik
Biographic Data
| ID | 2564544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Mahalik |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahalik |
| SIGNATURE | MAHALIK J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9463-2698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1351 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Navigating gendered racism: Black men’s experiences and responses to stereotyping
Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness
Development of the Relationships Fostering Healthy Masculinities Scale
Dominant masculinity and marginalized sexuality: Extending minority stress theory for gay and bisexual+ men
Men’s depressive symptoms, health beliefs, masculinity, and heart-healthy behaviors: Examining moderators of a mediated model
Conformity to masculine norms and men’s responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
Evaluation of brief online interventions to increase sense of purpose for fathers living in the United States
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. Drawing from relational-cultural theory, we frame the crises linked to hegemonic masculine socialization as shaped by interpersonal and sociocultural disconnections that keep boys an…
Men's attitudes toward mask-wearing during Covid-19: Understanding the complexities of mask-ulinity
Path analyses indicated that the relationship between conformity to masculine norms (CMN) and attitudes toward mask-wearing to protect from COVID-19 was mediated by perceived benefits, perceived barriers, confidence in the scientific community, and empathy toward vulnerable persons, and that political ideology moderated the indirect effects from CMN to men's attitudes. Efforts to improve men's participation in combatting COVID-19 should address t…
Positive youth development as a protective factor for adolescents at risk for depression and alcohol use
Female adolescents are at greater risk for depression than males, and highschool students in upper grades use alcohol at higher rates than students in lower grades. We hypothesized that attributes reflecting adaptive development addressed in the Positive Youth Development model would moderate gender differences in depressive symptoms, and grade differences in alcohol use, in a sample of adolescents. Six-hundred seventy highschool adolescents (M a…
Men’s head and heart: Health beliefs mediating depression’s relationship to heart-healthy behaviors
Examining father status and purpose to understand new dads’ healthier lives
Gender, male-typicality, and social norms predicting adolescent alcohol intoxication and marijuana use
Both/and, not either/or: A call for methodological pluralism in research on masculinity
The authors point out an uncomfortable fact for the psychology of men and masculinity. Namely, that our research used to challenge essentialist thinking about traditional masculinity is vulnerable to reifying and essentializing masculinity by using scale scores to assess masculinity. Although I share the concerns, I reach different conclusions about the remedies. In the paper, I discuss how we might think about the nature of masculinity, address …
Teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors describe their courses
Complexities and challenges when teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors discuss their pedagogical processes
Predicting health behaviors in young men that put them at risk for heart disease
There were 161 young adult men who completed measures assessing their health beliefs, masculinity, perceptions of the normativeness of health behaviors in other men, and heart healthy behaviors (i.e., diet, exercise, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, and medical screenings). Men’s heart-healthy behaviors were predicted by beliefs of benefits to healthy behavior, barriers, health knowledge, normativeness of men’s health-promoting behavior, and interacti…
The Masculinity of Mr. Right: Feminist Identity and Heterosexual Women’s Ideal Romantic Partners
Our study explored the relationship between feminist identity and women’s report of an ideal male partner’s conformity to masculine gender role norms. Heterosexual, mostly White, college women ( N = 183) completed measures assessing feminist beliefs and the masculinity characteristics of an ideal male partner. Results indicated that feminist identity significantly predicted participants' preferences for an ideal male partner’s conformity to mascu…
Minority stress, masculinity, and social norms predicting gay men's health risk behaviors.
The authors examined the contributions of the minority stress model, traditional masculine gender roles, and perceived social norms in accounting for gay men’s use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and risky sexual practices. Three hundred fifteen gay men recruited from listserv communities completed measures assessing internalized homophobia, stigma, antigay physical attack, masculinity, and perceptions of normative health behaviors, along wit…
Treatment type and emotional control as predictors of men's self-assessed physical well-being following treatment for prostate cancer
Masculinity and health behaviors in Australian men
Masculinity and perceived normative health behaviors as predictors of men's health behaviors
Health behaviors and masculinity in Kenyan and U.S. male college students
Approaching men’s health behaviors from a gender socialization framework, we hypothesized that (a) men’s health behaviors would significantly relate to their conformity to traditional masculine norms, (b) these behaviors would significantly differ as a function of their nationality, and (c) masculinity and nationality would significantly interact to predict men’s health behaviors. Five hundred forty-six male college students (384 Kenyan men, 162 …
Men’s Likely Responses to Clinical Depression: What Are They and Do Masculinity Norms Predict Them
Examining Racial Identity and Masculinity as Correlates of Self-Esteem and Psychological Distress in Black Men
Data presented for 124 young adult Black men indicate that self-esteem was positively related to participants' Internalization racial identity attitudes, and negatively related to conformity to traditional masculine norms in the dominant culture in the United States. Psychological distress was positively related to Pre-Encounter and Immersion-Emersion racial identity attitudes (J. E. Helms, 1995) and to conformity to masculine norms.Los datos se …
Men, masculinity, and the contexts of help seeking
Research on men's help seeking yields strategies for enhancing men's use of mental and physical health resources. Analysis of the assumptions underlying existing theory and research also provides a context for evaluating the psychology of men and masculinity as an evolving area of social scientific inquiry. The authors identify several theoretical and methodological obstacles that limit understanding of the variable ways that men do or do not see…
Development of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory
This article describes the construction of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI), and 5 studies that examined its psychometric properties. Factor analysis indicated 11 distinct factors: Winning, Emotional Control, Risk-Taking, Violence, Dominance, Playboy, Self-Reliance, Primacy of Work, Power Over Women, Disdain for Homosexuals, and Pursuit of Status. Results from Studies 2-5 indicated that the CMNI had strong internal consistency e…
Masculinity and perceived normative health behaviors as predictors of men's health behaviors
Development of the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory
Differential Reactions to Men and Women's Gender Role Transgressions: Perceptions of Social Status, Sexual Orientation, and Value Dissimilarity
This study examined the influence of gender role transgressions on perceptions of men and women's social status, homosexual orientation, and value dissimilarity. Because past research has shown that men who transgress gender role norms are punished more harshly than women, it was hypothesized that male transgressors would be perceived more negatively than female transgressors in each of these domains. Participants read vignettes of two hypothetic…
The impact of gender role conflict and counseling technique on psychological help seeking in men
Examining Racial Identity and Masculinity as Correlates of Self-Esteem and Psychological Distress in Black Men
Data presented for 124 young adult Black men indicate that self-esteem was positively related to participants' Internalization racial identity attitudes, and negatively related to conformity to traditional masculine norms in the dominant culture in the United States. Psychological distress was positively related to Pre-Encounter and Immersion-Emersion racial identity attitudes (J. E. Helms, 1995) and to conformity to masculine norms.Los datos se …
Examining African Self-Consciousness and Black Racial Identity as Predictors of Black Men's Psychological Well-Being
This study investigated African self-consciousness and Black racial identity as predictors of psychological distress and self-esteem for Black men. One hundred thirty Black men from a college and community sample completed the African Self-Consciousness Scale, the Racial Identity Attitude Scale-B, the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised, and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. Canonical correlation analysis found 2 significant roots with the 1st root…
Health behaviors and masculinity in Kenyan and U.S. male college students
Approaching men’s health behaviors from a gender socialization framework, we hypothesized that (a) men’s health behaviors would significantly relate to their conformity to traditional masculine norms, (b) these behaviors would significantly differ as a function of their nationality, and (c) masculinity and nationality would significantly interact to predict men’s health behaviors. Five hundred forty-six male college students (384 Kenyan men, 162 …
Gender, male-typicality, and social norms predicting adolescent alcohol intoxication and marijuana use
Masculinity and health behaviors in Australian men
Men’s Likely Responses to Clinical Depression: What Are They and Do Masculinity Norms Predict Them
A Cross-National and Cross-Sectional Comparison of Men's Gender Role Conflict and Its Relationship to Social Intimacy and Self-Esteem
Influences on Vietnamese Men: Examining Traditional Gender Roles, the Refugee Experience, Acculturation, and Racism in the United States
The authors have attempted to increase counselors' understanding of Vietnamese men in the U.S. by discussing masculine gender role socialization influences from Vietnamese culture, including the ritual of nhâu (a ritual of male bonding through binge drinking). The authors also provided a gendered context to the refugee experience, acculturation issues, and experiences of racism in the U.S.Los autores tratan de aumentar el entendimiento de conseje…
The effects of racism, african self-consciousness and psychological functioning on black masculinity: A historical and social adaptation framework
Gender role orientation and conflict as predictors of family roles for men
Men's attitudes toward mask-wearing during Covid-19: Understanding the complexities of mask-ulinity
Path analyses indicated that the relationship between conformity to masculine norms (CMN) and attitudes toward mask-wearing to protect from COVID-19 was mediated by perceived benefits, perceived barriers, confidence in the scientific community, and empathy toward vulnerable persons, and that political ideology moderated the indirect effects from CMN to men's attitudes. Efforts to improve men's participation in combatting COVID-19 should address t…
Predicting health behaviors in young men that put them at risk for heart disease
There were 161 young adult men who completed measures assessing their health beliefs, masculinity, perceptions of the normativeness of health behaviors in other men, and heart healthy behaviors (i.e., diet, exercise, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, and medical screenings). Men’s heart-healthy behaviors were predicted by beliefs of benefits to healthy behavior, barriers, health knowledge, normativeness of men’s health-promoting behavior, and interacti…
Masculine gender role conflict and stress in relation to parental attachment and separation
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. Drawing from relational-cultural theory, we frame the crises linked to hegemonic masculine socialization as shaped by interpersonal and sociocultural disconnections that keep boys an…
The Masculinity of Mr. Right: Feminist Identity and Heterosexual Women’s Ideal Romantic Partners
Our study explored the relationship between feminist identity and women’s report of an ideal male partner’s conformity to masculine gender role norms. Heterosexual, mostly White, college women ( N = 183) completed measures assessing feminist beliefs and the masculinity characteristics of an ideal male partner. Results indicated that feminist identity significantly predicted participants' preferences for an ideal male partner’s conformity to mascu…
Treatment type and emotional control as predictors of men's self-assessed physical well-being following treatment for prostate cancer
Examining masculine gender role conflict and stress in relation to religious orientation and spiritual well-being
Gender role conflict and psychological distress in male counseling center clients
Women's Perceptions of Male Partners' Gender Role Conflict as Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Satisfaction
This study evaluated the relationship between women’s perceptions of men’s gender role conflict and women’s relationship satisfaction and well-being. One hundred seventy-five women reported perceptions of their most recent or current male romantic partner’s gender role conflict and rated their own levels of somatization, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship satisfaction. Women who perceived their romantic partners as scoring higher …
Systematic Eclectic Models
Although increasingly popular, eclecticism has sometimes been characterized by its critics as "seat of the pants " therapy. This has led some authors to provide organizing principles for the eclectic field. These systematic eclectic models help counselors and therapists integrate interventions from various schools of psychotherapy. Four systematic eclectic models (Beutler 's eclectic psychotherapy; Howard, Nance, and Myers' adaptive counseling an…
Cross-sectional study of gender role conflict examining college-aged and middle-aged men.
The impact of gender role conflict and counseling technique on psychological help seeking in men
Gender role orientation and conflict as predictors of family roles for men
Comparison of Feminist Versus Psychoanalytic/Dynamic and Other Therapists on Self-Disclosure
The Feminist Self-Disclosure Inventory (FSDI) was developed to assess principles of therapist self-disclosure as described in the feminist therapy literature. This 18-item Likert-type scale was completed in a mailed survey by women psychotherapists (i.e., 41 self-identified feminist therapists, 34 psychoanalytic/dynamic, and 68 other therapists). Results indicated that the FSDI was comprised of five factors [i.e., Therapist Background (TB), Promo…
Influence of Racial/Ethnic Membership and "Therapist Culture" on Therapists' Worldview
The authors investigated 2 competing hypotheses related to therapists' worldview and therapists' race/ethnicity: (a) whether therapists of different racial/ethnic groups differed on worldview reflecting group membership, and (b) whether therapists were similar to each other on worldview reflecting membership in a "therapist culture." Results indicated that therapists shared similar worldviews regardless of group membership, and differences found …
Gender role conflict and psychological distress in male counseling center clients
Identifying gender role conflict messages that distinguish mildly depressed from nondepressed men
The purpose of the study was to more fully understand how the messages men internalize related to gender role socialization are associated with depression. As a means of identifying specific masculinity messages associated with depression, 27 depressed and 27 nondepressed men, more than 90% of whom were Caucasian, were compared on their endorsement of individual gender role conflict items. Results indicated that the depressed and nondepressed men…
Gender role conflict and psychological distress in male counseling center clients
Identifying gender role conflict messages that distinguish mildly depressed from nondepressed men
Examining masculine gender role conflict and stress in relation to religious orientation and spiritual well-being
Examining masculine gender role conflict and stress in relation to religious orientation and spiritual well-being
The effects of racism, african self-consciousness and psychological functioning on black masculinity: A historical and social adaptation framework
A Cross-National and Cross-Sectional Comparison of Men's Gender Role Conflict and Its Relationship to Social Intimacy and Self-Esteem
Masculine gender role conflict and stress in relation to parental attachment and separation
Masculine gender role conflict and stress in relation to parental attachment and separation
Masculinity scripts, presenting concerns, and help seeking: Implications for practice and training
Men are a unique population to work with in psychotherapy, but what does research indicate about how masculinity relates to therapeutic issues? Summarizing research on masculinity's relationship to a range of presenting issues, this article organizes and discusses the findings according to masculinity that clinicians are likely to recognize when working with male clients. The article then addresses how masculinity is also associated with less hel…
Men, masculinity, and the contexts of help seeking
Research on men's help seeking yields strategies for enhancing men's use of mental and physical health resources. Analysis of the assumptions underlying existing theory and research also provides a context for evaluating the psychology of men and masculinity as an evolving area of social scientific inquiry. The authors identify several theoretical and methodological obstacles that limit understanding of the variable ways that men do or do not see…
Development of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory
This article describes the construction of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI), and 5 studies that examined its psychometric properties. Factor analysis indicated 11 distinct factors: Winning, Emotional Control, Risk-Taking, Violence, Dominance, Playboy, Self-Reliance, Primacy of Work, Power Over Women, Disdain for Homosexuals, and Pursuit of Status. Results from Studies 2-5 indicated that the CMNI had strong internal consistency e…
Influences on Vietnamese Men: Examining Traditional Gender Roles, the Refugee Experience, Acculturation, and Racism in the United States
The authors have attempted to increase counselors' understanding of Vietnamese men in the U.S. by discussing masculine gender role socialization influences from Vietnamese culture, including the ritual of nhâu (a ritual of male bonding through binge drinking). The authors also provided a gendered context to the refugee experience, acculturation issues, and experiences of racism in the U.S.Los autores tratan de aumentar el entendimiento de conseje…
Women's Perceptions of Male Partners' Gender Role Conflict as Predictors of Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Satisfaction
This study evaluated the relationship between women’s perceptions of men’s gender role conflict and women’s relationship satisfaction and well-being. One hundred seventy-five women reported perceptions of their most recent or current male romantic partner’s gender role conflict and rated their own levels of somatization, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship satisfaction. Women who perceived their romantic partners as scoring higher …
Differential Reactions to Men and Women's Gender Role Transgressions: Perceptions of Social Status, Sexual Orientation, and Value Dissimilarity
This study examined the influence of gender role transgressions on perceptions of men and women's social status, homosexual orientation, and value dissimilarity. Because past research has shown that men who transgress gender role norms are punished more harshly than women, it was hypothesized that male transgressors would be perceived more negatively than female transgressors in each of these domains. Participants read vignettes of two hypothetic…
Examining Masculinity Norms, Problem Drinking, and Athletic Involvement as Predictors of Sexual Aggression in College Men.
Male sexual aggression toward women is a serious social problem, particularly on college campuses. In this study, college men's sexually aggressive behavior and rape myth acceptance were examined using conformity to 11 masculine norms and 2 variables previously linked to sexual aggression: problem drinking and athletic involvement. Results indicated that men who use alcohol problematically and conform to specific masculine norms (i.e., having pow…
Body Image Concerns of Gay Men: The Roles of Minority Stress and Conformity to Masculine Norms.
The authors hypothesized that gay men's experiences of minority stress and their conformity to masculine norms would be associated with increased body image dissatisfaction and masculine body ideal distress. For this cross-sectional study, 357 gay males completed a Web-based survey, and 2 multiple regression analyses indicated that minority stress factors (i.e., internalized homophobia, expected stigma for being gay, and experiences of physical a…
Development of the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory
Psychology (48 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (38 works) · Social Psychology (31 works) · Social Psychology (30 works) · Developmental psychology (25 works) · Masculinity (25 works) · Clinical Psychology (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychoanalysis (14 works)