'That's not masculine': masculine capital and health-related behaviour
de Visser, R.O. and Smith, Jonathan A. and McDonnell, E.J. (2009) 'That's not masculine': masculine capital and health-related behaviour. Journal of Health Psychology 14 (7), pp. 1047-1058. ISSN 1359-1053.
Abstract
In recent years increasing attention has been given to how different masculinities are expressed in young men’s health behaviour. To examine whether men can use competence in key health-related masculine domains to compensate for other non-masculine behaviour, group discussions were conducted with men aged 18—21 living in London, England. The analysis revealed the ways in which competence in traditionally masculine health-related domains produces masculine ‘capital’, which can be used to compensate for non-masculine behaviour in other domains. However, the capacity to trade this capital is limited because different masculine and non-masculine behaviours have different values.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | gender, health behaviour, males, men’s health, qualitative methods, social capital |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2010 11:10 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:53 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2583 |
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