Masculinity and Mental Well-Being: The Role of Stigma Attached to Help-Seeking Among Men

IF 3 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Sex Roles Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI:10.1007/s11199-024-01457-2

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Abstract

The goal of the current study is to add to the literature on masculinity and mental well-being by examining the role of help-seeking self-stigma as a potential mediating mechanism linking conformity to masculine norms to depression and stress among men. Findings with a community sample of 326 U.S. men (aged 18–75 years old) revealed that greater endorsement of masculine norms was associated with greater help-seeking self-stigma. Additionally, help-seeking self-stigma significantly linked endorsement of masculinity norms to perceived stress, but not to depression. This study furthers our understanding of how gender roles may uniquely shape men’s mental health experiences through creating barriers to seeking treatment.

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男性气质与心理健康：男性寻求帮助时的耻辱感所起的作用

摘要本研究的目的是通过考察求助自我污名作为一种潜在的中介机制在男性中将符合男性规范与抑郁和压力联系起来的作用，为有关男性气质和心理健康的文献增添新的内容。对 326 名美国男性（年龄在 18-75 岁之间）进行的社区抽样调查结果显示，对男性规范的更大认同与更大的求助自我污名化有关。此外，寻求帮助的自我污名与男性气质标准的认可度与感知到的压力有显著关联，但与抑郁无关。这项研究进一步加深了我们对性别角色如何通过制造求助障碍来独特塑造男性心理健康体验的理解。

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7.20

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5.30%

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期刊介绍： Sex Roles: A Journal of Research is a global, multidisciplinary, scholarly, social and behavioral science journal with a feminist perspective. It publishes original research reports as well as original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles that explore how gender organizes people’s lives and their surrounding worlds, including gender identities, belief systems, representations, interactions, relations, organizations, institutions, and statuses. The range of topics covered is broad and dynamic, including but not limited to the study of gendered attitudes, stereotyping, and sexism; gendered contexts, culture, and power; the intersections of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, age, and other statuses and identities; body image; violence; gender (including masculinities) and feminist identities; human sexuality; communication studies; work and organizations; gendered development across the life span or life course; mental, physical, and reproductive health and health care; sports; interpersonal relationships and attraction; activism and social change; economic, political, and legal inequities; and methodological challenges and innovations in doing gender research.