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Masculine discrepancy stress, teen dating violence, and sexual violence
perpetration among adolescent boys
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J Adolesc Health
2015[Jun]; 56
(6
): 619-24
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PURPOSE: Addressing gender norms is integral to understanding and ultimately
preventing violence in both adolescent and adult intimate relationships. Males
are affected by gender role expectations which require them to demonstrate
attributes of strength, toughness, and dominance. Discrepancy stress is a form of
gender role stress that occurs when boys and men fail to live up to the
traditional gender norms set by society. Failure to live up to these gender role
expectations may precipitate this experience of psychological distress in some
males which, in turn, may increase the risk to engage in physically and sexually
violent behaviors as a means of demonstrating masculinity. METHODS: Five-hundred
eighty-nine adolescent males from schools in Wayne County, Michigan completed a
survey assessing self-perceptions of gender role discrepancy, the experience of
discrepancy stress, and history of physical and sexual dating violence. RESULTS:
Logistic regression analyses indicated boys who endorsed gender role discrepancy
and associated discrepancy stress were generally at greater risk to engage in
acts of sexual violence but not necessarily physical violence. CONCLUSIONS: Boys
who experience stress about being perceived as "sub-masculine" may be more likely
to engage in sexual violence as a means of demonstrating their masculinity to
self and/or others and thwarting potential "threats" to their masculinity by
dating partners. Efforts to prevent sexual violence perpetration among male
adolescents should perhaps consider the influence of gender socialization in this
population and include efforts to reduce distress about masculine socialization
in primary prevention strategies.