James M O’Neil
Biographic Data
| ID | 5193846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M O’Neil |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Neil |
| SIGNATURE | O’NEIL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 381 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The mediation effect between everyday discrimination, gender role conflict, emotional eating, and obesity in African American fathers and sons
Black fathers matter: The role of paternal closeness on adolescent male obesity
Factor structure of the Gender Role Conflict Scale-Short Form in Chinese heterosexual and gay samples
The current study examined the validity of Gender Role Conflict Scale-Short Form (GRCS-SF) among a sample of 256 Chinese heterosexual men and 250 Chinese gay men. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the conclusion that a Chinese translated version of the GRCS-SF had acceptable structural validity. Specifically, the four-factor solution (i.e., Success, Power, Competition; Restricted Emotionality; Restricted Affectionate Behavior Between M…
Introduction to the special section: Teaching the psychology of men — A call to action
Teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors describe their courses
Teaching the psychology of men: A national survey of professors’ attitudes and content analyses of their courses
Complexities and challenges when teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors discuss their pedagogical processes
The Boy's Forum: An Evaluation of a Brief Intervention to Empower Middle-School Urban Boys
Programs for middle-school boys are needed because data suggests that young adolescent males have problems as they grow and develop. Few gender role interventions for boys have been evaluated or published in the professional literature. Conceptual justification for boy's programs is given using psychosocial theory, gender role transitions, multicultural aspects of masculinity, and positive/healthy masculinity. A short term, inexpensive interventi…
Development and evaluation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale Short Form (GRCS-SF)
Within the literature on the psychology of men, the gender role conflict (GRC) paradigm has been one of the most productive research programs explaining the impact of restrictive gender roles in men’s lives. Despite recent efforts aimed at understanding GRC from a multicultural perspective, few studies have examined the factor structure of the primary measure of GRC, the Gender Role Conflict scale (GRCS), using diverse samples of men. That was on…
Is criticism of generic masculinity, essentialism, and positive-healthy-masculinity a problem for the psychology of men
The Teaching of Primary Prevention: Concluding Thoughts and a Call to Action
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Teaching of Primary Prevention
Thomas Mayo Magoon (1922-2005)
Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications
This article reviews 232 empirical studies that used the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) over the past 25 years (1982-2007). The article introduces the gender role conflict (GRC) construct using past definitions and theoretical models. The research findings for diverse men are summarized and studies related to men's intrapersonal, interpersonal, and therapeutic lives are analyzed. The empirical support, criticism, and challenges to the gender r…
Complexity, Contextualism, and Multiculturalism: Responses to the Critiques and Future Directions for the Gender Role Conflict Research Program
The author reacts to three reviews by Carolyn Enns, Stephen Wester, and P. Paul and Mary Heppner on The Counseling Psychologist Major Contribution “Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications.” The reviews provide support for assessing the complexity and diversity of men's gender role conflict. The author comments on the reviewers' most criti…
The normative Male Alexithymia Scale: Measurement of a gender-linked syndrome
This series of studies assessed the psychometric properties of the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS), a brief scale designed to assess normative male alexithymia. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses using separate samples (n = 248 and 467, respectively) indicated that the NMAS consist
Psychological Abuse in Family Studies: A Psychoeducational and Preventive Approach
One of the first documented psychoeducational programs to educate college students about the perils of psychological abuse is described. The intervention was designed to help students examine their personal experiences of psychological abuse and consider how the information could be used in their careers. The process of creating the intervention and publicizing it to the campus community is discussed. The content of the intervention, participants…
Process Evaluation of Teaching Forgiveness in a Workshop and Classroom Setting
Forgiveness is a process that assists people in releasing their anger, resentment, and negative emotions towards those who have hurt them. This study reports a process evaluation of a psychoeducational workshop and classroom adaptation designed to teach students about forgiveness. We describe the workshop's content, process, and resources in detail. Participants were assessed before, during, and after the workshop across five process areas. The r…
Thomas Mayo Magoon (1922-2005)
An Adaptation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale for Adolescents: Psychometric Issues and Correlates With Psychological Distress
This study investigated the Gender Role Conflict Scale-Adolescent Version (GRCS-A) and its relationship with the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS), the measure from which it was adapted. Significant correlations between the adult and adolescent versions provided support for the concurrent validity of the GRCS-A. Further analyses revealed that two other measures of male mas-culinity, the Adolescent Masculinity Ideology in Relationships Scale (AMIR…
Response to Heppner, Witty, and Dixon: Inspiring and High-Level Scholarship That Can Change People's Lives
This reaction evaluates Heppner and his colleagues' extensive research program on problem-solving appraisal. The research program is assessed as inspiring, high-level scholarship and a unique contribution to counseling psychology. The theoretical foundations of the Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) and the strength of the data are very impressive and significant. This article makes recommendations on reporting the PSI diversity data, the need for r…
Wade's and Gelso's Contribution to the New Psychology of Men: Male Reference Group Identity Dependence Theory
A Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence Toward Women: Predisposing and Triggering Hypotheses
Violence against women by men is considered the single most serious threat to women's health and welfare in the United States. Knowledge about why male violence occurs against women is very limited. Previous theory and conceptualizations explaining men's violence have narrowly focused on individual factors or typologies. Predicting male violence is complex, necessitating a multivariate explanatory model. No heuristic model has been developed that…
Asian-American Men's Acculturation and Gender-Role Conflict
There is limited research on Asian-Americans' acculturation and conflicts with contemporary gender roles. This research assessed three samples of Asian-American men's acculturation and gender-role conflict. Differences between Chinese-American, Japanese-American, and Korean-American men's acculturation and the four patterns of gender-role conflict were analyzed. The relationship of demographic and acculturation variables to gender-role conflict w…
Male gender role conflict: Psychometric issues and relations to psychological distress.
Two distinct deficits in research on male gender role conflict are addressed: (a) lack of psychometric information and (b) lack of research involving clinical samples. First, using 1,043 men across three samples, the psychometric properties of the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) were examined through confirmatory factor analyses, internal consistency estimation, and construct validation. Next, using 130 male university counseling center clients…
Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications
This article reviews 232 empirical studies that used the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) over the past 25 years (1982-2007). The article introduces the gender role conflict (GRC) construct using past definitions and theoretical models. The research findings for diverse men are summarized and studies related to men's intrapersonal, interpersonal, and therapeutic lives are analyzed. The empirical support, criticism, and challenges to the gender r…
Male Sex Role Conflicts, Sexism, and Masculinity: Psychological Implications for Men, Women, and the Counseling Psychologist
The gender role journey measure: Scale development and psychometric evaluation
The normative Male Alexithymia Scale: Measurement of a gender-linked syndrome
This series of studies assessed the psychometric properties of the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS), a brief scale designed to assess normative male alexithymia. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses using separate samples (n = 248 and 467, respectively) indicated that the NMAS consist
Development and evaluation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale Short Form (GRCS-SF)
Within the literature on the psychology of men, the gender role conflict (GRC) paradigm has been one of the most productive research programs explaining the impact of restrictive gender roles in men’s lives. Despite recent efforts aimed at understanding GRC from a multicultural perspective, few studies have examined the factor structure of the primary measure of GRC, the Gender Role Conflict scale (GRCS), using diverse samples of men. That was on…
An Adaptation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale for Adolescents: Psychometric Issues and Correlates With Psychological Distress
This study investigated the Gender Role Conflict Scale-Adolescent Version (GRCS-A) and its relationship with the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS), the measure from which it was adapted. Significant correlations between the adult and adolescent versions provided support for the concurrent validity of the GRCS-A. Further analyses revealed that two other measures of male mas-culinity, the Adolescent Masculinity Ideology in Relationships Scale (AMIR…
A Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence Toward Women: Predisposing and Triggering Hypotheses
Violence against women by men is considered the single most serious threat to women's health and welfare in the United States. Knowledge about why male violence occurs against women is very limited. Previous theory and conceptualizations explaining men's violence have narrowly focused on individual factors or typologies. Predicting male violence is complex, necessitating a multivariate explanatory model. No heuristic model has been developed that…
Dual-Career Couples' Career Transitions and Normative Dilemmas: A Preliminary Assessment Model
A review of the literature indicates few concepts to assess dual-career couples during counseling. Limitations of past definitions and theories of career development are discussed in the context of the complexity of the dual-career life-style. New definitions are proposed to increase knowledge about the dual-career couple as a special group in career development. A preliminary assessment model is presented focusing on the normative dilemmas of du…
The mediation effect between everyday discrimination, gender role conflict, emotional eating, and obesity in African American fathers and sons
Is criticism of generic masculinity, essentialism, and positive-healthy-masculinity a problem for the psychology of men
Factor structure of the Gender Role Conflict Scale-Short Form in Chinese heterosexual and gay samples
The current study examined the validity of Gender Role Conflict Scale-Short Form (GRCS-SF) among a sample of 256 Chinese heterosexual men and 250 Chinese gay men. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the conclusion that a Chinese translated version of the GRCS-SF had acceptable structural validity. Specifically, the four-factor solution (i.e., Success, Power, Competition; Restricted Emotionality; Restricted Affectionate Behavior Between M…
Complexities and challenges when teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors discuss their pedagogical processes
Complexity, Contextualism, and Multiculturalism: Responses to the Critiques and Future Directions for the Gender Role Conflict Research Program
The author reacts to three reviews by Carolyn Enns, Stephen Wester, and P. Paul and Mary Heppner on The Counseling Psychologist Major Contribution “Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications.” The reviews provide support for assessing the complexity and diversity of men's gender role conflict. The author comments on the reviewers' most criti…
A Counseling Psychologist in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar: James in Wonderland
This article summarizes a counseling psychologist's experience with a Senior Fulbright Teaching Lectureship at Moscow State Pedagogical University in Moscow, Russia, from February 19 to April 24, 1992. The author describes his personal and professional experiences in Moscow 6 months after the failed 1991 coup d'état and the end of Soviet Communism. Professional perspectives on Russian psychology and impressions of the Russian people and culture a…
Black fathers matter: The role of paternal closeness on adolescent male obesity
Teaching the psychology of men: A national survey of professors’ attitudes and content analyses of their courses
Wade's and Gelso's Contribution to the New Psychology of Men: Male Reference Group Identity Dependence Theory
Teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors describe their courses
The Boy's Forum: An Evaluation of a Brief Intervention to Empower Middle-School Urban Boys
Programs for middle-school boys are needed because data suggests that young adolescent males have problems as they grow and develop. Few gender role interventions for boys have been evaluated or published in the professional literature. Conceptual justification for boy's programs is given using psychosocial theory, gender role transitions, multicultural aspects of masculinity, and positive/healthy masculinity. A short term, inexpensive interventi…
Process Evaluation of Teaching Forgiveness in a Workshop and Classroom Setting
Forgiveness is a process that assists people in releasing their anger, resentment, and negative emotions towards those who have hurt them. This study reports a process evaluation of a psychoeducational workshop and classroom adaptation designed to teach students about forgiveness. We describe the workshop's content, process, and resources in detail. Participants were assessed before, during, and after the workshop across five process areas. The r…
Response to Heppner, Witty, and Dixon: Inspiring and High-Level Scholarship That Can Change People's Lives
This reaction evaluates Heppner and his colleagues' extensive research program on problem-solving appraisal. The research program is assessed as inspiring, high-level scholarship and a unique contribution to counseling psychology. The theoretical foundations of the Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) and the strength of the data are very impressive and significant. This article makes recommendations on reporting the PSI diversity data, the need for r…
Patterns of Gender Role Conflict and Strain: Sexism and Fear of Femininity in Men's Lives
This article describes men's gender role conflict and strain that emanate from rigid gender socialization. The author proposes 10 assumptions about how gender role socialization and sexism can be psychologically dysfunctional for both men and women. The masculine mystique and value system and men's fear of femininity produce six patterns of gender role conflict and strain in men's lives. These patterns are discussed and their effects on men's psy…
Male Sex Role Conflicts, Sexism, and Masculinity: Psychological Implications for Men, Women, and the Counseling Psychologist
Dual-Career Families in Perspective: Reflections on Reactions
Dual-Career Couples' Career Transitions and Normative Dilemmas: A Preliminary Assessment Model
A review of the literature indicates few concepts to assess dual-career couples during counseling. Limitations of past definitions and theories of career development are discussed in the context of the complexity of the dual-career life-style. New definitions are proposed to increase knowledge about the dual-career couple as a special group in career development. A preliminary assessment model is presented focusing on the normative dilemmas of du…
The gender role journey measure: Scale development and psychometric evaluation
A Counseling Psychologist in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar: James in Wonderland
This article summarizes a counseling psychologist's experience with a Senior Fulbright Teaching Lectureship at Moscow State Pedagogical University in Moscow, Russia, from February 19 to April 24, 1992. The author describes his personal and professional experiences in Moscow 6 months after the failed 1991 coup d'état and the end of Soviet Communism. Professional perspectives on Russian psychology and impressions of the Russian people and culture a…
Male gender role conflict: Psychometric issues and relations to psychological distress.
Two distinct deficits in research on male gender role conflict are addressed: (a) lack of psychometric information and (b) lack of research involving clinical samples. First, using 1,043 men across three samples, the psychometric properties of the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) were examined through confirmatory factor analyses, internal consistency estimation, and construct validation. Next, using 130 male university counseling center clients…
Asian-American Men's Acculturation and Gender-Role Conflict
There is limited research on Asian-Americans' acculturation and conflicts with contemporary gender roles. This research assessed three samples of Asian-American men's acculturation and gender-role conflict. Differences between Chinese-American, Japanese-American, and Korean-American men's acculturation and the four patterns of gender-role conflict were analyzed. The relationship of demographic and acculturation variables to gender-role conflict w…
A Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence Toward Women: Predisposing and Triggering Hypotheses
Violence against women by men is considered the single most serious threat to women's health and welfare in the United States. Knowledge about why male violence occurs against women is very limited. Previous theory and conceptualizations explaining men's violence have narrowly focused on individual factors or typologies. Predicting male violence is complex, necessitating a multivariate explanatory model. No heuristic model has been developed that…
Wade's and Gelso's Contribution to the New Psychology of Men: Male Reference Group Identity Dependence Theory
Response to Heppner, Witty, and Dixon: Inspiring and High-Level Scholarship That Can Change People's Lives
This reaction evaluates Heppner and his colleagues' extensive research program on problem-solving appraisal. The research program is assessed as inspiring, high-level scholarship and a unique contribution to counseling psychology. The theoretical foundations of the Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) and the strength of the data are very impressive and significant. This article makes recommendations on reporting the PSI diversity data, the need for r…
An Adaptation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale for Adolescents: Psychometric Issues and Correlates With Psychological Distress
This study investigated the Gender Role Conflict Scale-Adolescent Version (GRCS-A) and its relationship with the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS), the measure from which it was adapted. Significant correlations between the adult and adolescent versions provided support for the concurrent validity of the GRCS-A. Further analyses revealed that two other measures of male mas-culinity, the Adolescent Masculinity Ideology in Relationships Scale (AMIR…
The normative Male Alexithymia Scale: Measurement of a gender-linked syndrome
This series of studies assessed the psychometric properties of the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS), a brief scale designed to assess normative male alexithymia. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses using separate samples (n = 248 and 467, respectively) indicated that the NMAS consist
Psychological Abuse in Family Studies: A Psychoeducational and Preventive Approach
One of the first documented psychoeducational programs to educate college students about the perils of psychological abuse is described. The intervention was designed to help students examine their personal experiences of psychological abuse and consider how the information could be used in their careers. The process of creating the intervention and publicizing it to the campus community is discussed. The content of the intervention, participants…
Process Evaluation of Teaching Forgiveness in a Workshop and Classroom Setting
Forgiveness is a process that assists people in releasing their anger, resentment, and negative emotions towards those who have hurt them. This study reports a process evaluation of a psychoeducational workshop and classroom adaptation designed to teach students about forgiveness. We describe the workshop's content, process, and resources in detail. Participants were assessed before, during, and after the workshop across five process areas. The r…
Thomas Mayo Magoon (1922-2005)
The Teaching of Primary Prevention: Concluding Thoughts and a Call to Action
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Teaching of Primary Prevention
Thomas Mayo Magoon (1922-2005)
Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications
This article reviews 232 empirical studies that used the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) over the past 25 years (1982-2007). The article introduces the gender role conflict (GRC) construct using past definitions and theoretical models. The research findings for diverse men are summarized and studies related to men's intrapersonal, interpersonal, and therapeutic lives are analyzed. The empirical support, criticism, and challenges to the gender r…
Complexity, Contextualism, and Multiculturalism: Responses to the Critiques and Future Directions for the Gender Role Conflict Research Program
The author reacts to three reviews by Carolyn Enns, Stephen Wester, and P. Paul and Mary Heppner on The Counseling Psychologist Major Contribution “Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications.” The reviews provide support for assessing the complexity and diversity of men's gender role conflict. The author comments on the reviewers' most criti…
Is criticism of generic masculinity, essentialism, and positive-healthy-masculinity a problem for the psychology of men
Development and evaluation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale Short Form (GRCS-SF)
Within the literature on the psychology of men, the gender role conflict (GRC) paradigm has been one of the most productive research programs explaining the impact of restrictive gender roles in men’s lives. Despite recent efforts aimed at understanding GRC from a multicultural perspective, few studies have examined the factor structure of the primary measure of GRC, the Gender Role Conflict scale (GRCS), using diverse samples of men. That was on…
Introduction to the special section: Teaching the psychology of men — A call to action
Teaching the psychology of men: Four experienced professors describe their courses
Psychology (31 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (20 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Applied Psychology (9 works) · Applied Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (8 works)