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Male Gender Role Conflict, Depression, and Help Seeking: Do College Men Face Double Jeopardy?
Author(s) -
Good Glenn E.,
Wood Phillip K.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1995.tb01825.x
Subject(s) - outreach , psychology , depression (economics) , variance (accounting) , clinical psychology , limiting , help seeking , perception , social psychology , mental health , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , business , accounting , neuroscience , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics , engineering
To investigate the previously untested hypothesis that college men with higher levels of male gender role conflict (MGRC) experience both increased risk of depression and more negative attitudes toward seeking counseling services, this study used latent variable modeling to examine these relations. Two components of MGRC were identified: restriction‐related MGRC, which predicted 25% of the variance in help‐seeking attitudes, and achievement‐relatedMGRC, which predicted 21% of the variance in depression. It is suggested that outreach programs designed to increase college men's willingness to use counseling services attempt to counter the option‐limiting aspects of male gender roles, whereas counseling with depressed college men incorporate an examination of their perceptions of success and achievement.