GENDER-ROLE CONFLICT, INSTRUMENTALITY, EXPRESSIVENESS, AND WELL-BEINGIN ADULT MEN

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 p sychological well-being. Whereas instrumentality continued to be the s trongest correlate of traditional measures of well-being, the canonica l 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 acc ounts for a third of the variance in adult men. The results also sugge st a weak association between gender role conflict and psychological w ell-being. Implications and future research are discussed.