Social pressure to be masculine likely to make younger men aggressive
IANS
If your masculinity is threatened by ‘be a man’, you are more likely to be aggressive as a new study suggests that younger men whose sense of masculinity depends heavily on other people’s opinions can be aggressive.
The study, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, indicates that the more social pressure a man feels to be masculine, the more aggressive he may be.
“When those men feel they are not living up to strict gender norms, they may feel the need to act aggressively to prove their manhood — to ‘be a man’,” said researcher Adam Stanaland from Duke University in the US.