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Title Gender Norms, Gender Role Conflict/Stress and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Men in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25f3k14p; https://escholarship.org/content/qt25f3k14p/qt25f3k14p.pdf
Date 2018
Author(s) Gottert, Ann; Barrington, Clare; McNaughton-Reyes, Heath Luz; Maman, Suzanne; MacPhail, Catherine; Lippman, Sheri A; Kahn, Kathleen; Twine, Rhian; Pettifor, Audrey
Abstract Men's gender role conflict and stress (GRC/S), the psychological strain they experience around fulfilling expectations of themselves as men, has been largely unexplored in HIV prevention research. We examined associations between both men's gender norms and GRC/S and three HIV risk behaviors using data from a population-based survey of 579 18-35 year-old men in rural northeast South Africa. Prevalence of sexual partner concurrency and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration in the last 12 months were 38.0 and 13.4%, respectively; 19.9% abused alcohol. More inequitable gender norms and higher GRC/S were each significantly associated with an increased odds of concurrency (p = 0.01; p < 0.01, respectively), IPV perpetration (p = 0.03; p < 0.01), and alcohol abuse (p = 0.02; p < 0.001), controlling for demographic characteristics. Ancillary analyses demonstrated significant positive associations between: concurrency and the GRC/S sub-dimension subordination to women; IPV perpetration and restrictive emotionality; and alcohol abuse and success, power, competition. Programs to transform gender norms should be coupled with effective strategies to prevent and reduce men's GRC/S.
Subject(s) Public Health; Health Sciences; Behavioral and Social Science; Substance Misuse; Mental Health; HIV/AIDS; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Prevention; Women's Health; Violence Research; Social Determinants of Health; Alcoholism; Alcohol Use and Health; Infectious Diseases; Violence Against Women; Gender Equality; Good Health and Well Being; Peace; Justice and Strong Institutions; Adolescent; Adult; Alcoholism; Female; Gender Identity; HIV Infections; Humans; Intimate Partner Violence; Male; Prevalence; Risk-Taking; Rural Population; Sexual Partners; South Africa; Stress; Psychological; Gender role; HIV; Sexual behavior; Violence; Alcohol; Public Health and Health Services; Social Work; Public health
Coverage 1858 - 1869
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source AIDS and Behavior, vol 22, iss 6
Rights public
Identifier qt25f3k14p; info:doi/10.1007/s10461-017-1706-9
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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