Does androgyny have psychoprotective attributes? A cross-sectional community-based study

Prakash, Jyoti; Kotwal, Atul; Ryali, Vssr; Srivastava, Kalpana; Bhat, Pookala Shivaram; Shashikumar, R

doi:10.4103/0972-6748.90343

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“…Among patients with HF, lack of men with type M was accompanied by overrepresentation of men with type U. This is alarming because the U type among healthy people is characterized by the highest level of stress (known as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases) and by the highest risk of developing depression, which is a common comorbidity of HF (Drohomirecka, Jankowska, Banasiak, & Ponikowski, 2008; Jankowska et al, 2010; Lipińska-Grobelny, 2008; Patten et al, 2010; Prakash et al, 2010). In other words, type U can be interpreted as the least favorable type in the context of general health status and emotional comfort.…”

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Psychological Gender of Men With Systolic Heart Failure

Makowska¹,

Rydlewska

Krakowiak³

et al. 2013

Am J Mens Health

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Diminished exercise capacity is a fundamental symptom of heart failure (HF), which is particularly disadvantageous for men for whom exercise capacity contributes significantly to their gender identity, self-esteem, and quality of life. In this study, we aimed to examine whether psychological gender would be different in men with systolic HF as compared with their healthy peers. The authors examined 48 men with systolic HF (age = 64 ± 10 years; body mass index = 28.3 ± 3.4 kg/m2; NYHA I/II/III [%] = 25/65/10; left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] = 32.1 ± 7.8%) and 15 age-matched healthy men. Based on the results of the Polish version of the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the examined men were divided into four types of psychological gender: “masculine” (M), “feminine” (F), “unspecified” (U), and “androgynous” (A). None of the men with HF presented M type of psychological gender, whereas this type was found in 27% of the healthy men ( p = .0002). The prevalence of both A (38% vs. 47%) and F (10% vs. 20%, both p > .05) types of psychological gender was similar between men with HF versus without HF. More men with HF fulfilled the criteria of the U type of psychological gender as compared with healthy peers (51% vs. 7%, p = .002). Men with HF and the F type of psychological gender were treated with spironolactone more frequently than those classified with the U and A types (both p < .05). The lack of “psychologically masculine” and the overrepresentation of “psychologically unspecified” gender types in the HF group suggests that psychological gender may be affected among men with HF.

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confidence: 99%

Psychological Gender of Men With Systolic Heart Failure

Makowska¹,

Rydlewska

Krakowiak³

et al. 2013

Am J Mens Health

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“…2017 ), higher creativity ( Norlander et al. 2000 ), and has been found to be psychoprotective ( Prakash et al. 2010 ).…”

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The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study

Zhang

Luo²,

Huang

et al. 2021

Cerebral Cortex

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Psychological androgyny has long been associated with greater cognitive flexibility, adaptive behavior, and better mental health, but whether a similar concept can be defined using neural features remains unknown. Using the neuroimaging data from 9620 participants, we found that global functional connectivity was stronger in the male brain before middle age but became weaker after that, when compared with the female brain, after systematic testing of potentially confounding effects. We defined a brain gender continuum by estimating the likelihood of an observed functional connectivity matrix to represent a male brain. We found that participants mapped at the center of this continuum had fewer internalizing symptoms compared with those at the 2 extreme ends. These findings suggest a novel hypothesis proposing that there exists a neuroimaging concept of androgyny using the brain gender continuum, which may be associated with better mental health in a similar way to psychological androgyny.

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“…For example, some authors have shown that traditional masculinity is associated with drug abuse behavior in a study of students from the USA [6]- [9], several health behaviors in North American men [10], better mental health in Spanish men and women [11], less frequent use of mental health service when analyzing different studies in various nationalities [12], or greater self-esteem and lower levels of anxiety and depression in Hindu couples [13].…”

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Conformity to Traditional Gender Norms in a Feminized Occupation: The Influence on Health Behaviors

Sánchez-López¹,

Saavedra²,

Gras³

2014

Health

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The object of this study is to examine the relationships between conformity to traditional gender norms and health in a special group of the Spanish population, male/female nurses. Nursing is a particularly good example of feminized occupation. Spanish male (n = 98) and female (n = 98) nurses matched in diverse sociodemographic variables complete measures of gender norms and health behavior variables. Measures of conformity to gender norms in female and male nurses are compared with those of the general population. The analysis of the inter-gender relationships and health highlights a clearly masculine pattern for men and a clearly feminine one for women. A detailed analysis of the scores in each of the scales reveals a pattern of illness in male nurses that is still masculine despite their lower conformity, as a group, to masculine norms, and a clearly feminine illness pattern in female nurses. The consideration of gender from a multidimensional perspective (the different factors that make up Masculinity and Femininity, as assessed in this work) has allowed us to study the relations between gender norms and health in more detail. Limitations and implications are discussed.

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Does androgyny have psychoprotective attributes? A cross-sectional community-based study

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Psychological Gender of Men With Systolic Heart Failure

Psychological Gender of Men With Systolic Heart Failure

The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study

Conformity to Traditional Gender Norms in a Feminized Occupation: The Influence on Health Behaviors

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