Barroom aggression among Australian men: Associations with heavy episodic drinking, conformity to masculine norms, and personal and perceived peer approval of barroom aggression
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posted on 2024-06-04, 11:00authored byPeter MillerPeter Miller, L Zinkiewicz, A Hayley, A Sonderlund, S Litherland, T Medew-Ewen, S Wells, K Graham
Barroom aggression among Australian men: Associations with heavy episodic drinking, conformity to masculine norms, and personal and perceived peer approval of barroom aggression
Objective: Research suggests that heavy episodic drinking
(HED), perceived peer norms, and personal approval of aggression
influence male barroom aggression (MBA). Qualitative research
suggests that conformity to hegemonic masculine gender norms also
influences MBA; however, quantitative research on the direct and indirect
influence of masculinity on MBA is limited. This study tested the
relationships between HED, conformity to masculine gender norms,
and personal approval and peer approval of MBA on MBA perpetration,
as well as the indirect effect of masculine norms on MBA via HED.
Method:A convenience sample of Australian men (N = 322; mean age =
21.05 years, SD = 1.95; 76.9% university students) completed an online
questionnaire, assessing HED and MBA over the previous year, and subscales
of the Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Male Alcohol-Related Aggression
Inventory and Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory-46.
Results: Negative binomial regression analyses found that, overall, HED,
male peer approval, and personal approval of MBA directly predicted
increased risk of verbal and physical MBA perpetration. Greater conformity
to specific masculine norms also increased (Power Over Women)
and decreased (Emotional Control, Heterosexual Self-Presentation) risk
of MBA perpetration. The masculine norms Risk Taking, Playboy, and
Emotional Control were found to be indirect predictors of MBA via
HED. Conclusions: Risk of MBA perpetration is increased primarily by
HED as a direct, but also mediating, predictor. Personal and male peer
approval of MBA, and specific masculine norms, further increase this
risk whereas other masculine norms appear protective.
Publication classification
C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice
2016, Alcohol Research Documentation Inc.
Issue
3
Publisher
ALCOHOL RES DOCUMENTATION INC CENT ALCOHOL STUD RUTGERS UNIV