Country-level and individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries

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Authors

  • Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka
  • Tomasz Besta
  • Jennifer K. Bosson
  • Paweł Jurek
  • Joesph A. Vandello
  • Deborah L. Best
  • Anna Wlodarczyk
  • Saba Safdar
  • Magdalena Zawisza
  • Magdalena Żadkowska
  • Jurand Sobiecki
  • Collins Badu Agyemang
  • Gülçin Akbaş
  • Soline Ammirati
  • Joel Anderson
  • Gulnaz Anjum
  • John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta
  • Mujeeba Ashraf
  • Aistė Bakaitytė
  • Chongzeng Bi
  • Maja Becker
  • Michael Bender
  • Dashamir Bërxulli
  • Janine Bosak
  • Serena Daalmans
  • Justine Dandy
  • Soledad de Lemus
  • Nikolay Dvorianchikov
  • Edgardo Etchezahar
  • Laura Froehlich
  • Alin Gavreliuc
  • Dana Gavreliuc
  • Ángel Gomez
  • Hedy Greijdanus
  • Ani Grigoryan
  • Miriam Linnea Hale
  • Hannah Hämer
  • Vera Hoorens
  • Paul B. Hutchings
  • Dorthe Høj Jensen
  • Kaltrina Kelmendi
  • Narine Khachatryan
  • Mary Kinahan
  • Desiree Kozlowski
  • Mary Anne Lauri
  • Junyi Li
  • Angela T. Maitner
  • Ana Makashvili
  • Tiziana Mancini
  • Sarah E. Martiny
  • Jasna Milošević Đorđević
  • Eva Moreno-Bella
  • Silvia Moscatelli
  • Andrew Bryan Moynihan
  • Dominique Muller
  • Danielle Ochoa
  • Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo
  • Maria Giuseppina Pacilli
  • Jorge Palacio
  • Snigdha Patnaik
  • Vassilis Pavlopoulos
  • Ivana Piterová
  • Angelica Puzio
  • Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna
  • Erico Rentería-Pérez
  • Tiphaine Rousseaux
  • Mario Sainz
  • Marco Salvati
  • Adil Samekin
  • Efraín García-Sánchez
  • Sara Sherbaji
  • Rosita Sobhie
  • Dijana Sulejmanović
  • Katie E. Sullivan
  • Beatriz Torre
  • Claudio V. Torres
  • Joaquín Ungaretti
  • Timothy Valshtein
  • Colette Van Laar
  • Jolanda van der Noll
  • Vadym Vasiutynskyi
  • Neharika Vohra
  • Antonella Ludmila Zapata-Calvente
  • Rita Žukauskienė

Men sometimes withdraw support for gender equality movements when their higher gender status is threatened. Here, we expand the focus of this phenomenon by examining it cross-culturally, to test if both individual- and country-level variables predict men's collective action intentions to support gender equality. We tested a model in which men's zero-sum beliefs about gender predict reduced collective action intentions via an increase in hostile sexism. Because country-level gender equality may threaten men's higher gender status, we also examined whether the path from zero-sum beliefs to collective action intentions was stronger in countries higher in gender equality. Multilevel modeling on 6,734 men from 42 countries supported the individual-level mediation model, but found no evidence of moderation by country-level gender equality. Both country-level gender equality and individual-level zero-sum thinking independently predicted reductions in men's willingness to act collectively for gender equality.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Social Psychology
Volume50
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)1276-1291
Number of pages16
ISSN0046-2772
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.10.2020

    Research areas

  • ally behaviour, collective action, culture, gender inequality, hostile sexism, status threats
  • Psychology

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