Predictors of men's psychotherapy preferences

an article by Brian P. Cole and Michael Baglieri (University of Kansas, USA), Gregory J. Petronzi (Connected Psychology, New York, USA) and Daniel B. Singley (The Center for Men’s Excellence, San Diego, USA) published in Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Volume 19 Issue 1 (March 2019)

Abstract

Aim
The current study examined men's perceptions and preferences for four types of psychotherapy.

Method
Men (N = 315) were recruited by Qualtrics panels to complete a survey that included vignettes describing therapeutic orientations.

Results
Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that gender role socialisation, self‐stigma and attitudes about professional psychological help negatively predicted willingness to engage in psychodynamic, person‐centred, cognitive behavioural and positive psychology positive masculinity therapy. Furthermore, men in the study preferred positive psychology positive masculinity therapy to cognitive behavioural therapy.

Conclusion
Given the role of gender role socialisation, self‐stigma and fear of femininity in the development of barriers to men's help‐seeking, the present study provides support for “man friendly” therapeutic orientations such as the positive psychology positive masculinity model. Implications for clinical practice and future directions for research are discussed.

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Variation in economic preferences around the world with implications for understanding inequality: Evidence from the Global Preferences Survey

a column by Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Vast inequalities exist within societies as well as across nations.

This column uses a new dataset to show that preferences vary substantially across and within societies, and that these differences are related to differences in economic outcomes at the individual and aggregate levels. The findings suggest that institutional reform should take into account how institutions may interact with preference differences.

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Revisiting ‘mothers and sons’ preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland

an article by Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway) published in Labour Economics Volume 20 (January 2013)

Abstract

This paper analyses the interrelation between men’s gender role attitudes and female labour supply decision. Following Fernández et al. (2004), I argue that the recent increases in the female labour market participation rate are driven by the growing proportion of men who were brought up in a family with a working mother.

First, the paper re-examines the results of the cross-section analysis of Fernández et al. (2004) using the Swiss Household Panel 2005 to illustrate that married women whose mothers-in-law were working are themselves significantly more likely to be in the labour force.

In a second step, the paper attempts to test one of their model’s crucial mechanisms and show that the effect of a wife’s labour market integration on her husband’s well-being diverges depending on the former labour market status of his mother.

Taken together, this evidence can be interpreted as varying preferences for women with high labour market integration due to exposure to certain sexual stereotypes early in life.

Highlights

► I analyse interrelations between marriage choice and female labour supply decision.
► Married women are more likely to work when their mothers-in-law were working.
► A wife's contribution to household income reduces her husband's satisfaction.
► The negative effect is only significant when the husband raised by working a mother.

JEL Classification J22, I31, J12

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