- Title
- Prospective associations between hegemonic masculinity and incident depression/depressive symptoms : results from a national sample of Australian emerging adult men
- Creator
- Van Doorn, George; Teese, Robert; Gill, Peter
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/176601
- Identifier
- vital:15168
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110899
- Identifier
- ISBN:0191-8869 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Emerging adulthood is associated with several freedoms and opportunities, but is also a period of increased risk for several physical and mental health conditions. This study assessed the association between adherence to traditional masculine norms at baseline and incident depression and incident depressive symptoms at follow-up in a national sample of Australian emerging adult men (18–29 years). We performed binary logistic regressions based on two waves of data from a national longitudinal survey, Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health. The sample comprised 2170 emerging adult men who completed both the Wave 1 (2013–2014) and Wave 2 (2015–2016) surveys. Results indicated that adhering to multidimensional hegemonic masculine norms at baseline did not confer risk for developing either incident Major Depression or incident depressive symptoms at follow-up, except for adhering to ‘playboy’ (e.g., desire for multiple sexual partners). These findings conflict with previous reports showing that hegemonic masculinity is associated with depression and depressive symptoms, and suggest that the assumption that adhering to traditional masculine norms places men at greater risk for depression should be questioned, at least during the emerging adult stage of the lifespan. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Personality and Individual Differences Vol. 179, no. (Journal article 2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Subject
- 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; Depression; Emerging adulthood; Epidemiology; Hegemonic masculinity; Men's mental health
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The research on which this paper is based was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health (Ten to Men) by George Van Doorn, Robert Teese, and Peter Gill. We are grateful to the Australian Government Department of Health for funding and to the boys and men who provided the survey data. Ten to Men is managed by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Ten to Men research data is the intellectual property of the Commonwealth. Funding text 2: The research on which this paper is based was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health (Ten to Men) by George Van Doorn, Robert Teese, and Peter Gill. We are grateful to the Australian Government Department of Health for funding and to the boys and men who provided the survey data. Ten to Men is managed by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Ten to Men research data is the intellectual property of the Commonwealth. None. The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health (Ten to Men) was approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 1237897 & 1237376). Participants provided written consent.
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