• DOI:10.1007/BF01547932
• Corpus ID: 144209586

Gender role conflict, instrumentality, expressiveness, and well-being in adult men

@article{Sharpe1995GenderRC,
  title={Gender role conflict, instrumentality, expressiveness, and well-being in adult men},
  author={Mark J. Sharpe and Puncky Paul Heppner and Wayne A. Dixon},
  journal={Sex Roles},
  year={1995},
  volume={33},
  pages={1-18}
}

• Mark J. Sharpe, P. P. Heppner, W. Dixon
• Published 1 July 1995
• Psychology
• Sex Roles

This study examined gender roles and gender role conflict in relation to a broad range of indices of psychological well-being in men. Eighty-eight community adult primarily white men (median age = 50) completed ten inventories assessing masculine role constructs and measures of psychological well-being. Whereas instrumentality continued to be the strongest correlate of traditional measures of well-being, the canonical analysis confirmed the Sharpe and Heppner 1991 study indicating that at least two roots or variates are needed to understand psychological well-being in men, and that expressivity and emotional well-being accounts for a third of the variance in adult men. The results also suggest a weak association between gender role conflict and psychological well-being. Implications and future research are discussed.