Nina Gao
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 312948 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nina Gao |
| NOMBRES | Nina |
| APELLIDO | Gao |
| FIRMA | GAO N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6658-9928 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Alcohol as social glue and gloom in men's mutual help for mental health
Peer support is increasingly advocated for promoting men's mental health. That said, men's peer connections are often socially intertwined with alcohol use, which can limit potential mental health gains. This article describes the gendered dimensions of alcohol use in men's peer mutual help for mental health. Drawing on photovoice interviews with 52 Canadian-based men, we inductively derived two themes: alcohol as social glue, and alcohol as soci…
Data or Deception
Online recruitment and data collection in qualitative research grew significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing a host of benefits including cost and time savings for researchers and participants. However, significant risks and limitations exist when recruiting and interviewing participants online. ‘Imposter participants’ have emerged, seemingly incentivized by study honoraria. These imposter participants invoke significant administrati…
The Commercial Determinants of Nonalcoholic Beer
Public awareness about the connections between men’s alcohol use and poor health outcomes, including increased male suicide risk, has led to reduced consumption and increased use of nonalcoholic beverages—most prominently nonalcoholic beer (NAB). Marketed as a healthy substitution option (i.e., periodically switching to an NAB rather than abstaining from alcoholic beer), the rapidly growing NAB sector might be somewhat redemptive, wherein the alc…
Men’s Experiences with Fatherhood in Heterosexual Relationships
The restructuring of gender identities and shifting social expectations of fathers have resulted in increased interest in understanding contemporary discourses about involved fathering. This article contributes to that scholarship by providing a narrative analysis about men’s experiences with fatherhood in heterosexual relationships. Drawing from a photovoice study with 16 fathers, we report three discrete but interrelated narratives. The first n…
Picture this
Objectives: The quality of intimate partner relationships strongly influences men’s mental health, yet little research attention has been given to these relationships from a strengths-based critical masculinities perspective. Addressing this knowledge gap, this photovoice study provides insights into young men’s experiences of, and perspectives about, building intimate partner relationships. Design: Photovoice methodology. Setting: This study was…
Helping men build better intimate partner relationships
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the strategies used by Canadian healthcare providers to assist men in strengthening their intimate partner relationships. Design: Qualitative research study. Method: Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews. Using interpretive descriptive methods, secondary analysis inductively identified the strategies used by 10 Canadian-based healthcare providers. Participants comprised …
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships
Emotional intimacy is key to intimate partner relationship quality and satisfaction. For sexual minority men, queer and feminist theorists consistently link emotional intimacy to diverse sexual practices and partnership dynamics formulated within the relationship. This Photovoice study adds to those insights by drawing on individual photovoice interviews with 16 sexual minority men to describe participant's experiences of, and strategies for emot…
The Gendered Barriers to Men's Mental Health Peer Support
While men's mental health help-seeking has received increased clinical and research attention, little information exists regarding men's perspectives and experiences of peer support and mutual help for mental health challenges. Drawing on qualitative photovoice interviews with 65 men living in Canada ( M = 37; SD = 15.5 years), thematic analyses were conducted to explore the gendered barriers to men's mental health peer support. Two inductively d…
Canadian Men's Intimate Partner Relationship Break-Ups During Covid-19
COVID-19 impacted many men's intimate partner relationships, with distressed and disrupted partnerships consistently featured in commentaries with linkages to mental health challenges. The current study draws from interviews with 23 Canadian-based men, 19-50 years old, who experienced a break-up during COVID-19. Addressing the research question, "What are the connections between masculinities, men's mental health, and intimate partner relationshi…
The Commercial Determinants of Men’s Health Promotion
Although the social determinants of health have guided equity work with the tailoring of men’s health promotion programs, the role of, and potential for, the commercial determinants of health in those interventions is rarely addressed and poorly understood. While four commercial products, tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed food, and fossil fuels, account for more than a third of global deaths, there is a need to recognize that consumer goods indus…
Masculinity, Meat, and Veg*nism
Men historically consume more meat than women, show fewer intentions to reduce meat consumption, and are underrepresented among vegans and vegetarians. Eating meat strongly aligns with normative masculinities, decisively affirming that “real men” eat meat and subordinating men who choose to be veg* n (vegan or vegetarian). The emergence of meat alternatives and increasing environmental concerns may contest these long-standing masculine norms and …
Relational gendered dimensions of emotions in heterosexual cisgender Men’s intimate partnerships
Illuminating relational gendered dimensions of emotions in heterosexual cisgender men’s intimate partnerships, this study addresses a significant knowledge gap in masculinities, emotionality and health work. Thematic analyses of individual photovoice interviews with 92 men from diverse locales and ethnocultural backgrounds revealed a trilogy of men’s practices regarding emotions. Emotional restraint was embodied by men withholding rather than fre…
Participatory Action Research and Knowledge Dissemination in Virtual Photovoice
Despite the methodological spread of virtual photovoice, alignments to and potential advances for the participatory action research (PAR) and knowledge dissemination (KD) components of in-person photovoice are poorly understood. Detailing the PAR and KD processes, practices, and products drawn from a virtual photovoice study examining men's experiences of and perspectives about equitable intimate partner relationships, the current article offers …
Neo-traditionalist, egalitarian and progressive masculinities in men's heterosexual intimate partner relationships
The case for and Against Doing Virtual Photovoice
Photovoice offers creative participatory action methods for conveying community strengths and challenges with the goal of addressing health inequities. Accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, photovoice has increasingly become virtual, and this shift has given rise to new considerations including navigating online recruitment and data collection, e-participatory action trends and working with multi-site large qualitative data sets. Within these con…
The case for and Against Doing Virtual Photovoice
Photovoice offers creative participatory action methods for conveying community strengths and challenges with the goal of addressing health inequities. Accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, photovoice has increasingly become virtual, and this shift has given rise to new considerations including navigating online recruitment and data collection, e-participatory action trends and working with multi-site large qualitative data sets. Within these con…
Neo-traditionalist, egalitarian and progressive masculinities in men's heterosexual intimate partner relationships
Neo-traditionalist, egalitarian and progressive masculinities in men's heterosexual intimate partner relationships
The case for and Against Doing Virtual Photovoice
Photovoice offers creative participatory action methods for conveying community strengths and challenges with the goal of addressing health inequities. Accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, photovoice has increasingly become virtual, and this shift has given rise to new considerations including navigating online recruitment and data collection, e-participatory action trends and working with multi-site large qualitative data sets. Within these con…
The Commercial Determinants of Men’s Health Promotion
Although the social determinants of health have guided equity work with the tailoring of men’s health promotion programs, the role of, and potential for, the commercial determinants of health in those interventions is rarely addressed and poorly understood. While four commercial products, tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed food, and fossil fuels, account for more than a third of global deaths, there is a need to recognize that consumer goods indus…
Masculinity, Meat, and Veg*nism
Men historically consume more meat than women, show fewer intentions to reduce meat consumption, and are underrepresented among vegans and vegetarians. Eating meat strongly aligns with normative masculinities, decisively affirming that “real men” eat meat and subordinating men who choose to be veg* n (vegan or vegetarian). The emergence of meat alternatives and increasing environmental concerns may contest these long-standing masculine norms and …
Relational gendered dimensions of emotions in heterosexual cisgender Men’s intimate partnerships
Illuminating relational gendered dimensions of emotions in heterosexual cisgender men’s intimate partnerships, this study addresses a significant knowledge gap in masculinities, emotionality and health work. Thematic analyses of individual photovoice interviews with 92 men from diverse locales and ethnocultural backgrounds revealed a trilogy of men’s practices regarding emotions. Emotional restraint was embodied by men withholding rather than fre…
Participatory Action Research and Knowledge Dissemination in Virtual Photovoice
Despite the methodological spread of virtual photovoice, alignments to and potential advances for the participatory action research (PAR) and knowledge dissemination (KD) components of in-person photovoice are poorly understood. Detailing the PAR and KD processes, practices, and products drawn from a virtual photovoice study examining men's experiences of and perspectives about equitable intimate partner relationships, the current article offers …
The Commercial Determinants of Nonalcoholic Beer
Public awareness about the connections between men’s alcohol use and poor health outcomes, including increased male suicide risk, has led to reduced consumption and increased use of nonalcoholic beverages—most prominently nonalcoholic beer (NAB). Marketed as a healthy substitution option (i.e., periodically switching to an NAB rather than abstaining from alcoholic beer), the rapidly growing NAB sector might be somewhat redemptive, wherein the alc…
Men’s Experiences with Fatherhood in Heterosexual Relationships
The restructuring of gender identities and shifting social expectations of fathers have resulted in increased interest in understanding contemporary discourses about involved fathering. This article contributes to that scholarship by providing a narrative analysis about men’s experiences with fatherhood in heterosexual relationships. Drawing from a photovoice study with 16 fathers, we report three discrete but interrelated narratives. The first n…
Picture this
Objectives: The quality of intimate partner relationships strongly influences men’s mental health, yet little research attention has been given to these relationships from a strengths-based critical masculinities perspective. Addressing this knowledge gap, this photovoice study provides insights into young men’s experiences of, and perspectives about, building intimate partner relationships. Design: Photovoice methodology. Setting: This study was…
Helping men build better intimate partner relationships
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the strategies used by Canadian healthcare providers to assist men in strengthening their intimate partner relationships. Design: Qualitative research study. Method: Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews. Using interpretive descriptive methods, secondary analysis inductively identified the strategies used by 10 Canadian-based healthcare providers. Participants comprised …
Sexual minority men’s experiences of, and strategies for emotional intimacy in intimate partner relationships
Emotional intimacy is key to intimate partner relationship quality and satisfaction. For sexual minority men, queer and feminist theorists consistently link emotional intimacy to diverse sexual practices and partnership dynamics formulated within the relationship. This Photovoice study adds to those insights by drawing on individual photovoice interviews with 16 sexual minority men to describe participant's experiences of, and strategies for emot…
The Gendered Barriers to Men's Mental Health Peer Support
While men's mental health help-seeking has received increased clinical and research attention, little information exists regarding men's perspectives and experiences of peer support and mutual help for mental health challenges. Drawing on qualitative photovoice interviews with 65 men living in Canada ( M = 37; SD = 15.5 years), thematic analyses were conducted to explore the gendered barriers to men's mental health peer support. Two inductively d…
Canadian Men's Intimate Partner Relationship Break-Ups During Covid-19
COVID-19 impacted many men's intimate partner relationships, with distressed and disrupted partnerships consistently featured in commentaries with linkages to mental health challenges. The current study draws from interviews with 23 Canadian-based men, 19-50 years old, who experienced a break-up during COVID-19. Addressing the research question, "What are the connections between masculinities, men's mental health, and intimate partner relationshi…
Alcohol as social glue and gloom in men's mutual help for mental health
Peer support is increasingly advocated for promoting men's mental health. That said, men's peer connections are often socially intertwined with alcohol use, which can limit potential mental health gains. This article describes the gendered dimensions of alcohol use in men's peer mutual help for mental health. Drawing on photovoice interviews with 52 Canadian-based men, we inductively derived two themes: alcohol as social glue, and alcohol as soci…
Data or Deception
Online recruitment and data collection in qualitative research grew significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing a host of benefits including cost and time savings for researchers and participants. However, significant risks and limitations exist when recruiting and interviewing participants online. ‘Imposter participants’ have emerged, seemingly incentivized by study honoraria. These imposter participants invoke significant administrati…
Gender Roles and Identity Studies (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Qualitative research (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Thematic analysis (5 obras) · Masculinity (4 obras) · Photovoice (4 obras)