Understanding boys’: Thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide

Ghaill, Máirtín Mac an; Haywood, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.036

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“…The openness of young people in terms of culture and identity perhaps lends itself to intervention during final years of primary school. Interventions might focus on bullying experience of friendships and isolation (Mac an Ghaill et al, 2012).…”

Section: Gendered and Non-gendered Targetingmentioning

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Influencing public awareness to prevent male suicide

Robinson¹,

Braybrook

Robertson

2014

Journal of Public Mental Health

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report findings from a formative evaluation of a suicide prevention public awareness campaign – Choose Life, North Lanarkshire. The focus is on preventing male suicide. The paper explores how the public campaign supports a co-ordinated and community-based direction for suicide prevention work, and examines how good practice can be identified, spread, and sustained. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on data collected from March to November 2011, using mixed primary research methods, including a quota survey, discussion groups with the general public, and stakeholder interviews. Findings – The campaign effectively raised the suicide awareness of a substantial proportion of those targeted, but with regional variations. It also affected the attitudes and behaviour of those who were highly aware. However, men and women engaged somewhat differently with the campaign. The sports and leisure settings approach was effective in reaching younger men. Practical implications – The paper discusses emerging considerations for suicide prevention, focusing on gender and approaches and materials for engaging with the public as “influencers”. There are challenges to target audiences more specifically, provide a clear call to action, and engage the public in a sustained way. Originality/value – This paper reflects on insights from a complex programme, exceptional in its focus on targeted sections of the public, especially young males. The paper indicates the importance for research and practice of intersecting dimensions of male identity, stigma and mental health, and other risk and protective factors which can inform campaigns highlighting talk about suicide among men.

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Section: Gendered and Non-gendered Targetingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influencing public awareness to prevent male suicide

Robinson¹,

Braybrook

Robertson

2014

Journal of Public Mental Health

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“…the Samaritans' 2012 Men, Suicide and Society report). Researchers across different disciplines have also begun to address male suicide as a gendered issue, though as Katrina Jaworski (2014) and others have noted, research investigating male suicide often lacks a critical gender perspective (Canetto, 2017;Mac an Ghaill & Haywood, 2012;Mallon, Galway, Hughes, Rondón-Sulbarán, & Leavey, 2016;Scourfield, 2005). In this article, we contribute to ongoing efforts to subject the "problem" of male suicide to critical analysis.…”

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confidence: 96%

Crisis, what crisis? A feminist analysis of discourse on masculinities and suicide

Jordan

Chandler

2018

Journal of Gender Studies

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High male suicide rates are often constructed as evidence for an apparent "crisis of masculinity". Conversely, "crisis of masculinity" has been used to explain differential rates of male and female suicide in the UK (and elsewhere). We analyse three public cases where male suicide and "masculinity-crisis" discourse are employed together. Our feminist analysis demonstrates that "crisis talk" and male suicide are addressed in divergent ways. We therefore distinguish between "progressive" and "conservative" crisis narratives.Conservative narratives position high male suicide rates as a pernicious outcome of "threats" to traditional gender roles and norms, suggesting the solution is to return to them.Contrastingly, progressive crisis accounts use male suicide to demonstrate that existing gender norms harm men as well as women and argue they should be altered to address male suicide. Conservative narratives often map on to anti-feminist politics, whereas progressive accounts reflect aspects of feminism. There is no neat feminist/anti-feminist distinction, however, as postfeminist ideas are also evident. We argue that, overall, each of the articulations of a "crisis of masculinity" as evidenced by high rates of male suicide reinforces problematic gender politics. Further, in reifying simplistic, dualistic models of gender, they may ultimately constrain efforts to reduce suicide.

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“…Such changes in the social and cultural contexts have placed young men in a transitional and paradoxical position without providing them with equipments to cope with the changes [5]. Another study regarding the understanding of masculinity in England showed that young boys were under presure for taking normative gender roles to be recognized as “too much” masculine by not expressing the feelings and not seeking for help, whereas being “not enough” masculine resulted in “isolation and rejection from others, such as peer groups” [29]. …”

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Perception of masculinity amongst young Malaysian men: a qualitative study of university students

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BackgroundPerception of Masculinity plays an important role in men’s lifestyles and health behaviors. Although, the importance of masculinity has been widely discussed in men’s health literature, very little is known about the meanings of masculinity in the Malaysian setting. This research aimed to explore the meanings of masculinity among Malaysian university men.MethodsThis qualitative study utilized in-depth interviews with 34 young Malaysian university men, aged 20–30 years from three main ethnic groups in Malaysia (Malay, Chinese and Indian). Thematic analysis approach was used to extract data. NVIVO v8 qualitative software was used for data management.ResultsFrom the data collected several concepts emerged that reflected the meanings of masculinity from the participants’ view points. These meanings were associated with a combination of traditional and non-traditional norms that generally benefit men who behave according to culturally dominant role expectations. These included: “Having a good body shape”, “being respected”, “having success with women”, “being a family man”, and “having financial independence”. Socio-cultural factors, such as family environment, religion, public media and popular life style patterns helped to shape and reinforce the meanings of masculinities among university men.ConclusionsThis study revealed that the university context provided a particular culture for construction and reinforcement of the meanings of masculinities, which should be considered by the educators to help in development of healthy masculinities.

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Understanding boys’: Thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide

Cited by 44 publications

References 35 publications

Influencing public awareness to prevent male suicide

Influencing public awareness to prevent male suicide

Crisis, what crisis? A feminist analysis of discourse on masculinities and suicide

Perception of masculinity amongst young Malaysian men: a qualitative study of university students

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