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- Title
Beyond Men Behaving Badly: A Meta-Ethnography of Men's Perspectives on Psychological Distress and Help Seeking.
- Authors
HOY, SANDRA
- Abstract
Men's hesitancy to seek help for psychological distress is demonstrated in the quantitative literature. Men's perspectives and experiences need to be better understood to inform policy and practice. A meta-ethnography was conducted of 51 qualitative studies on men's perspectives on psychological distress and help seeking. Findings indicate most participants' conceptualizations of psychological distress are socially-based and many have difficulty with the term "depression." Men's accounts show notions of masculinity negatively impacts mental health and acts as a barrier to help seeking. Challenging the common characterization of men, men reveal the impact of interpersonal factors on mental health. Gender is revealed as a determinant of health that interacts with economic security, ethnicity and sexuality. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.
- Subjects
MEN'S health; GENDER role & psychology; MENTAL depression; ANXIETY; GENDER identity; HELP-seeking behavior; INTERVIEWING; MENTAL health; ETHNOLOGY research; QUALITATIVE research; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
International Journal of Men's Health, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 3, p202
- ISSN
1532-6306
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3149/jmh.1103.202