Citation
Gottert, Ann L.; Barrington, Clare; McNaughton-Reyes, Heath Luz; Maman, Suzanne; MacPhail, Catherine Lorne; Lippman, Sheri A.; Kahn, Kathleen; Twine, Rhian; & Pettifor, Audrey E. (2018). Gender Norms, Gender Role Conflict/Stress and HIV Risk Behaviors among Men in Mpumalanga, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior, 22(6), 1858-1869. PMCID: PMC6440537Abstract
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.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-017-1706-9Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2018Journal Title
AIDS and BehaviorAuthor(s)
Gottert, Ann L.Barrington, Clare
McNaughton-Reyes, Heath Luz
Maman, Suzanne
MacPhail, Catherine Lorne
Lippman, Sheri A.
Kahn, Kathleen
Twine, Rhian
Pettifor, Audrey E.
PMCID
PMC6440537ORCiD
Barrington - 0000-0001-7802-4051Pettifor - 0000-0002-3387-0817