{"id":2430,"date":"2016-11-16T22:44:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.utexas.edu\/black-male-education-research\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2016-11-16T22:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:44:43","slug":"measuring-masculinity-in-an-afro-caribbean-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/measuring-masculinity-in-an-afro-caribbean-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Masculinity in an Afro-Caribbean Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson, P. (2012). Measuring masculinity in an afro-caribbean context.<i> Social and Economic Studies, <\/i><i>61<\/i>(1), 49.<\/p>\n<p>This paper proposes a new scale for the measurement of masculinity, with special reference to Afro-Caribbean males. The scale which is labeled the Macho Scale focuses on masculine identity and gender relations. The macho scale achieved an alpha level of .82 based on a survey of 1,14:1 fathers in four Jamaican communities , and is shown to have a high level of convergent validity. The paper seeks to situate this analysis within the wider literature on the Afro-Caribbean family and gender relations, and current policy concerns in regard to gender socialization , domestic violence and crime.<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41803739<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson, P. (2012). Measuring masculinity in an afro-caribbean context. Social and Economic Studies, 61(1), 49. This paper proposes a new scale for the measurement of masculinity, with special reference to Afro-Caribbean males. The scale which is labeled the Macho Scale focuses on masculine identity and gender relations. The macho scale&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/measuring-masculinity-in-an-afro-caribbean-context\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93],"tags":[59,1791,1793,24,571,1794],"class_list":{"0":"post-2430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-familial-influences-fi","7":"category-masculinity-studies-ms","8":"tag-59","9":"tag-afro-caribbean","10":"tag-domestic-violence","11":"tag-gender","12":"tag-gender-identity","13":"tag-patricia-anderson","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}