Research
FATHERS
This study examines the psychometric properties and correlates of an existing measure of father involvement with infants, The Paternal Involvement with Infants scale (PIWIS), with Latino fathers
- Matt Hawkins
An overview of paternal perinatal mental health, leading tools to assess paternal depression and anxiety, the impact of paternal mental health on mother and child health, and future directions for the field
- Matt Hawkins
An overview of the key factors which research and theory suggest inform new fatherhood, along with an in-depth look at paternal postpartum depression.
- Matt Hawkins
This project aims to develop a psychometrically sound, theoretically grounded instrument of father involvement.
- Matt Hawkins
ADOLESCENTS
This study examines the degree to which the existence of a pre-adolescent ‘chum’ interacts with family and social environments to buffer mental distress in adolescents.
- Matt Hawkins
This study examined whether time spent with friends during childhood and adolescence is prospectively associated with blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) almost 20 years later
- Matt Hawkins
MASCULINITY
This article reviews 5 studies that show manhood is a socially constructed precarious state that must be continually proved and validated.
- Matt Hawkins
This cross-cultural study from 62 countries shows an association between precarious manhood beliefs and risk-related health behaviors and outcomes.
- Matt Hawkins
This study examined men’s perceptions and preferences for four types of psychotherapy: Psychodynamic therapy (PDT), Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Positive psychology-positive masculinity therapy (PPPMT), and Person-centered therapy (PCT).
- Matt Hawkins
COMPASSION AND THERAPY
his study examined whether self-compassion moderated the relationship between masculine norm adherence and both help-seeking self-stigma and the risks associated with self-disclosing to a counselor
- Matt Hawkins
This chapter “gives examples of the clinical application of using compassion-focused therapy (CFT) with men to show how specific challenges to men can be worked through with CFT
- Matt Hawkins
The purpose of this paper was to determine the effectiveness of an adapted compassion-focused therapy (CFT) group treatment programme for individuals with an intellectual disability (ID), specifically aimed to help address maladaptive conceptualisations of masculinity.
- Matt Hawkins
This study assessed the efficacy of the PSYCHOPATHY.COMP in promoting a compassionate motivation among male detained youth, also testing its role as a potential mechanism of change on the reduction of psychopathic traits.
- Matt Hawkins
SELF COMPASSION
Results of this study demonstrated that higher levels of self-compassion were related to lower masculine norm adherence, lower trait shame, and higher self-esteem.
- Matt Hawkins
The purposes of this study were to investigate relationships among mental health shame, mental health problems, masculinity, self-compassion, and motivation, and examine whether self-compassion would mediate the relationship between mental health shame and mental health problems” amongst construction workers.
- Matt Hawkins
We present a conceptual framework for relational interventions focused on helping boys and men navigate harmful socialization occurring in U.S. dominant culture, one which upholds a restrictive image of manhood that gives rise to health problems and social injustice.
- Matt Hawkins
SPORTS
This study finds that independent of masculinity, self-compassion predicted more...understanding of help seeking in men by addressing the relationships between conformity to masculine norms and self-compassion.
- Matt Hawkins
The findings of this study support self-compassion as a promising resource for men athletes to buffer emotionally difficult sport experiences.
- Matt Hawkins
The purpose of this study “was to explore men athletes’ lived experiences of self-compassion through the lens of masculinity.
- Matt Hawkins
THE MILITARY
This research examined the interrelationships among masculinity, mindfulness, and self-compassion as well as how these variables predict well-being (coping and quality of life) in 164 military veterans.
- Matt Hawkins
GENDER DIFFERENCES
This study “investigated interrelations among other-directed compassion, self-compassion, and environmental compassion in early adolescence and examined how the different manifestations of compassion related to age and sex during this age period.
- Matt Hawkins
This study represents one of the first systematic analyses of potential gender differences in self-compassion using meta-analytic techniques, including whether such gender differences are moderated by age or ethnic minority status.
- Matt Hawkins
POLITICS
Why would heterosexual men downplay their compassion for masculine (vs. feminine) gay victims of hate crime? Two social identity-inspired explanations provide contrasting answers to this question.
- Matt Hawkins
THEORY
This article examines masculinity and compassion through an evolutionary perspective, with an aim to demonstrate how compassion can help adolescent boys with hegemonic masculine identities.
- Matt Hawkins
This paper reviews relevant theory and findings from compassion science through the lens of the Big Two Framework…which distinguishes between two core dimensions of social cognition, namely communion (i.e., warmth, morality, and expressiveness) and agency (i.e., dominance, competence, and instrumentality).
- Matt Hawkins