Masculine gender roles and counseling-related variables: Links with and mediation by personality

The authors examined the overlap of masculine gender-role conflict and stre ss with personality, as organized in the 5-factor model (FFM), in a sample of 300 college men. Using a subset (n = 173) of the total sample, the autho rs also revisited previously established relations of masculine gender-role conflict and stress with several counseling-related variables; there was a specific focus on the mediational role of personality in these relations. Results indicated that personality and masculine gender-role variables had 60% overlapping variance and that personality mediated 94% of the significa nt relations between masculinity and counseling-related variables.