Father-Son Relationship, Hegemonic Masculinity and Emotional Health in Adult Men

Abstract

The aim of present research was to study the relationship between father-son relationship, hegemonic masculinity and emotional health in adult men. The sample of study consisted of 310 adult males taken from Rawalpindi and Islamabad with an age range of 25-35 years. The data regarding their age, education, occupation, marital status, current residency, background residency, current family system, background family system and currently living with parents was collected to situate the sample. The form of The Masculine Gender-Role Stress abbreviated version (MGRS-AV Swartout, Parrott, Cohn, Hagman, & Gallagher, 2015), Fatherhood scale (FS) (Dick, 2004), and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Bagby et al., 1994) were used to measure study variables. The result indicated that majority of sample reported high on emotional difficulties. Moreover, the results of study showed that father-son relationship and hegemonic masculinity have a significant relationship with emotional health in men. Emotional health problems were higher in men from rural areas as compare to urban area. However education, marital status, occupation, and family system showed non-significant difference on emotional health. Results of regression analysis shows that father-son relationship is less contributing and non significant to emotional difficulties. However, hegemonic masculinity and its components are significantly predicting emotional difficultie