IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01651-4

Ece Akca

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Rethinking Sexual Consent Myths: Development and Validation of the Sexual Consent Myths Scale (Sex-M) 重新思考性同意神话：性同意神话量表（Sex-M）的发展和验证

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-04-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01652-3

Ezgi Toplu-Demirtaş, Ayşegül Aracı-İyiaydın

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Machismo, Rape Myths, and Sexual Violence: A Mixed Methods Study of Rural Mexican Parents’ Beliefs and Conversations About Gendered Risk 大男子主义、强奸神话和性暴力：墨西哥农村父母关于性别风险的信仰和对话的混合方法研究

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-04-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01646-1

Andrea S. Medrano, Courtney M. Medina, Ashley Harvey, Dollar Ganu, Mayra A. del Carmen

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Who Knows and Who Cares? Public Awareness, Estimates, and Reactions to the Motherhood Penalty 谁知道，谁在乎？公众对母亲惩罚的认识、估计和反应

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01648-z

Emily J. Cross, Winny Shen

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“Protect Our Women…From the Immigrants!?”: The Association Between Sexism, Xenophobia, and the Perception of Sexual Street Harassment From In-Group Versus Out-Group Men “保护我们的女人不受移民的伤害！？”：性别歧视、仇外心理和群体内与群体外男性对街头性骚扰感知之间的关系

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-04-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01650-5

Thomas Plieger, Lina Stens, Silja Petrig, Diana Fichtner, Moritz Hess, Martin Reuter

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Not All Math Activities Are Equal in Terms of Gender Stereotypes. 就性别刻板印象而言，并非所有数学活动都是平等的。

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01645-2

Megan Merrick,Andrew D White,Amanda B Diekman,Emily R Fyfe

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Built to Exclude: How Masculinity Contest Culture Undermines Women’s Fit, Engagement, and Retention 建立排斥：男性竞赛文化如何破坏女性的健康、参与和保留

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01644-3

Mackenzie J. Miller, Kayla B. Follmer

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Which Fathers Are Sensitive to Maternal Gate Closing? Exploring How Gender Role Attitudes Moderate the Link Between Fathers' Perceptions of Gate Closing and Childcare Involvement 哪些父亲对母亲关门敏感？探讨性别角色态度如何调节父亲关上门认知与育儿参与之间的联系

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01642-5

Shira Offer, Danny Kaplan

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A Gendered Approach to Understanding Hirsutism and Mental Health Risk in PCOS: Comparing Cisgender Women and Gender Diverse Individuals 从性别角度理解多囊卵巢综合征多毛症和心理健康风险：比较顺性别女性和不同性别个体

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-026-01647-0

Stacey L. Williams, Shaye Henry, Lillian Elder, Kendall Soucie, Makayla Parton

{"title":"A Gendered Approach to Understanding Hirsutism and Mental Health Risk in PCOS: Comparing Cisgender Women and Gender Diverse Individuals","authors":"Stacey L. Williams, Shaye Henry, Lillian Elder, Kendall Soucie, Makayla Parton","doi":"10.1007/s11199-026-01647-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-026-01647-0","url":null,"abstract":"Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is consistently associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms. Though prior studies have linked PCOS with poor body image and reduced quality of life including perceived threats to womanhood, few studies have directly examined these psychosocial impacts of PCOS as explanations of mental health risks. We examined the psychosocial impacts of one specific PCOS symptom, hirsutism, which refers to excess, male-patterned body and facial hair, and its association with depressive and anxiety symptoms. We argue that gender identity could differentiate psychosocial impacts of hirsutism, and thereby mental health risk. Taking a gendered approach we examined 1) gender identity (i.e., cisgender women, gender diverse) differences in body image concerns and the impact on quality of life associated with hirsutism, and 2) whether gender identity moderated the mediating effects of these psychosocial impacts in explaining how hirsutism is linked to depressive and anxiety symptoms. Data were collected via an online survey of 122 (<italic>n</italic> = 69 cisgender women, <italic>n</italic> = 53 gender diverse) individuals diagnosed with PCOS. Results revealed that hirsutism significantly explained cisgender women’s but not gender diverse individuals’ body image concerns and negative impact on quality of life, which, in turn, explained mental health in cisgender women but not in gender diverse individuals. Findings support a gendered impact of hirsutism on mental health risk, which has implications for the treatment of PCOS.","PeriodicalId":48425,"journal":{"name":"Sex Roles","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity 白人男性被忽视了吗？性别和民族认同对友谊亲密度的影响

IF 3.8 2区社会学

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-025-01638-7

Emily C. Fox

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