“…It has also been positively related to need for success, power, and competition, as well as restrictive emotional ity, restrictive affectionate behavior between men, and gender role conflict in general (Liang, Salcedo, Miller, 2011). Additionally, machismo has been related to maladaptive behaviors such as alcohol consumption among Latino men (Arciniega et al, 2008) and higher numbers of sex partners among Mexican American gay men (Estrada, Rigali-Oiler, Arciniega, & Tracey, 2011). The lone liness and isolation that many day laborers' experience (Walter et al, 2004), coupled with machismo, may increase vulnerability to negative mental health outcomes (Arciniega et al) and engage ment in maladaptive behaviors such as risky sexual encounters and problem drinking (Duke & Carpinteiro, 2009).…”