645 research outputs found
Masculine Beliefs, Parental Communication, and Male Adolescents' Health Care Use
Male adolescents frequently become disconnected from health care, especially as they get older, which limits physiciansâ abilities to address their health needs and results in missed opportunities to connect them to the health care system as they enter adulthood. In this study we tested the ability of modifiable (beliefs about masculinity, parental communication, sex education, and health insurance) and nonmodifiable (age, race/ethnicity, and region of residence) factors to prospectively predict health care use by male adolescents
Global identification helps increase identity integration among Turkish gay men
Globalisation provides novel contexts for individuals to express and transform their identities in ways that may not be available in their local cultures. For gay men living in cultures where traditional masculinity norms prescribe heterosexuality and the rejection of homosexuality, gay-male identity is inherently threatened. However, adopting an identity as a âglobal citizenâ may increase the compatibility between gay and male identities, and hence augment well-being. We conducted an experiment with a community sample of 220 gay men in Turkey, manipulating pro- and anti-globalisation world views. Priming with pro-globalisation world views increased peopleâs identification as global citizens, and thus indirectly led to higher gay-male identity integration. Identity integration, in turn, predicted higher subjective well-being. This study brings the first experimental evidence on the link between global identification and gay-male identity integration. Beyond its local focus on the cultural context of Turkey, it highlights the importance of an intersectional approach to studying social identities by showing how the compatibility of two social identities can be increased by adopting a third social identity
Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility
There are four main interconnecting themes around which the contributions in this book are based. This introductory chapter aims to establish the broad context for the chapters that follow by discussing each of the themes. It does so by setting these themes within the overarching demographic challenge of the twenty-first century â demographic ageing. Each chapter is introduced in the context of the specific theme to which it primarily relates and there is a summary of the data sets used by the contributors to illustrate the wide range of cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysed
Redes Sociais e Comportamento Sexual: para uma visão relacional da sexualidade, do risco e da prevenção
Com base num inquérito representativo da população
portuguesa entre 18 e 65 anos, realizado em
2007, este estudo investiga o impacto de fatores de
rede social sobre os comportamentos sexuais dos
indivĂduos. AtravĂ©s da percepção normativa dos
inquiridos sobre a moral sexual dos seus amigos e familiares
e de indicadores relativos à caracterização
da rede de confidĂȘncia sexual, tais como o nĂșmero, a
identidade, o gĂȘnero, a idade e o comportamento dos
confidentes em matéria de sexualidade e prevenção
face ao risco de infecção por DSTs, obtivemos um
retrato multidimensional das redes sociais dos
indivĂduos. A realização de anĂĄlises de regressĂŁo
linear e logĂstica permitiu avaliar o impacto preditivo
da rede sobre o nĂșmero de parceiros sexuais,
as relaçÔes sexuais ocasionais e o uso do preservativo.
Os dados mostram que os fatores de rede sĂŁo
importantes para explicar o comportamento sexual
dos indivĂduos. Redes constituĂdas por amigos e
mais liberais em termos de moral sexual tendem a
influenciar o comportamento sexual, levando a um
maior experimentalismo, sobretudo no caso das mulheres.
Por outro lado, a homologia entre o comportamento
sexual dos confidentes e o dos inquiridos
Ă© relevante para explicar o recurso ao preservativo
nas relaçÔes sexuais ocasionais, especialmente no
caso dos homens. Tanto numa perspectiva relacional
da sexualidade como numa Ăłptica epidemiolĂłgica,
a anĂĄlise das redes sociais dos indivĂduos constitui
um aspecto importante para a compreensĂŁo e
explicação da variedade de experiĂȘncias sexuais, mais restritas ou mais plurais, e para os riscos de
infecção que daà podem advir
Honor and the Stigma of Mental Healthcare
Most prior research on cultures of honor has focused on interpersonal aggression. The present studies examined the novel hypothesis that honor-culture ideology enhances the stigmatization of mental health needs and inhibits the use of mental health services. Study 1 demonstrated that people who strongly endorsed honor-related beliefs and values were especially concerned that seeking help for mental health needs would indicate personal weakness and would harm their reputations. Studies 2 and 3 showed that honor states in the U.S. South and West invested less in mental healthcare resources, compared with non-honor states in the North (Study 2), and that parents living in honor states were less likely than parents in non-honor states to use mental health services on behalf of their children (Study 3). Together, these studies reveal an overlooked consequence of honor ideology for psychological well-being at the individual, social, and institutional levels.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Hidden Voices of Black Men
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Political masculinities, crisis tendencies, and social transition: Toward an understanding of change
This introduction to the special issue on âPolitical Masculinities and Social Transitionâ rethinks the notion of âcrisis in masculinityâ and points to its weaknesses, such as cyclical patterns and chronicity. Rather than viewing key moments in history as points of rupture, we understand social change as encompassing ongoing transitions marked by a âfluid natureâ (Montecinos 2017, 2). In line with this, the contributions examine how political masculinities are implicated within a wide range of social transitions, such as nation building after war, the founding of a new political party in response to an economic crisis, an âauthoritarian relapseâ of a democracy, attempts at changing society through terrorism, rapid industrialization as well as peace building in conflict areas. Building on Starck and Sauerâs definition of âpolitical masculinitiesâ we suggest applying the concept to instances in which power is explicitly either being (re)produced or challenged. We distinguish between political masculinities that are more readily identified as such (e.g., professional politicians) and less readily identified political masculinities (e.g., citizens), emphasizing how these interact with each other. We ask whether there is a discernible trajectory in the characteristics of political masculinities brought about by social transition that can be confirmed across cultures. The contributorsâ findings indicate that these political masculinities can contribute to different kinds of change that either maintain the status quo, are progressive, retrogressive, or a mixture of these. Revolutionary transitions, it seems, often promote the adherence to traditional forms of political masculinity, whereas more reformatory transition leaves discursive spaces for argument
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