A study conducted in the United States has revealed that men who feel insecure about their masculinity may be more likely to resort to violence.
The researchers who conducted the study at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Violence Prevention, said violence control efforts should focus on how gender norms may induce distress in boys and men that could lead them to act out with risk-taking or violence.
The findings indicate that insecurity could also be a factor underlying aggressive or dangerous acts.
The study concluded that men who both considered themselves less masculine and worried about others perceptions of them because of this were more than three times more likely to have committed an assault that caused injury, than those who had low levels of this kind of stress.