| The percentage of men entering and completing doctoral training programs in psychology has steadily decreased over the past several decades (Pion et al., 1996). Despite this significant numerical decline, and its obvious effect of the number of male psychologists entering the workforce, scholarship on this subgroup of men is scarce. In this study, 302 male psychology doctoral students completed measures that assessed the psychological effects of their gender role and related those effects to aspects of their training experience. The major aims of this study were to compare the gender role conflict (GRC) of male psychology doctoral trainees to that of a normative male sample and establish associations between GRC and (a) the advisory working alliance, (b) multicultural awareness, and (c) psychological distress. Results indicated that male trainees largely report less GRC than other men -- yet, have greater gender related conflict between their work and family relations. Among these men, patterns of GRC were found to be predictive of psychological distress and multicultural awareness, but had no association with the advisory working alliance. Implications for training and directions for future research are provided.;Keywords: Men and Masculinity, Psychology Training, Gender Role Conflict, Advising. |
