John L Oliffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 109700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John L Oliffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | John L |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliffe |
| SIGNATURE | OLIFFE J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9029-4003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 211 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 930 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 211 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Are quantitative targets for social network size and interaction frequency appropriate for public health guidelines on social connection? Evidence from loneliness and related mental health outcomes
Introduction Public health guidelines for social connection seek to address loneliness and its health consequences at the population level. Although some approaches suggest specific numeric targets (e.g., frequency of social interaction), the empirical basis for these thresholds remains unclear. We aimed to identify such thresholds for loneliness and related mental health outcomes and test their stability across strata of mental health. Methods W…
Help-Seeking for Suicidality Among Rural LGBTQ+ Youth: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study
Rural gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) youth face heightened suicidality risk due to social and structural health inequities, including isolation, stigma, and inaccessible mental health services. However, little is known about how LGBTQ+ youth seek help when experiencing suicidality. This constructivist grounded theory study examines the help-seeking processes of rural LGBTQ+ youth experiencing suic…
Racialized Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (GBTQ) Men’s Suicidality in Canada: Religious and Spiritual Dimensions
The protective effects of religiosity and spirituality against mental illness and suicidality have been widely established, but the ways these dimensions characterize racialized GBTQ men's suicidality is poorly understood. Drawing on interpretive descriptive methodology and using virtual photovoice methods, individual Zoom interviews were conducted with 32 Canadian-based racialized GBTQ men to explore the connections between their religiosity, sp…
Pathological narcissism and loneliness among men: Implications for men's satisfaction with life
Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties for a Turkish Version of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory-30
Although many forms of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI) are widely used in international literature, there is yet to be a Turkish version. The CMNI-30 is an instrument consisting of 30 statements developed to measure masculinity ideologies, with statements representing different behaviors associated with masculinity. The CMNI-30 has proven reliable and valid across different languages and cultures. This study evaluated the psych…
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…
“Being There”: The Enduring Value of In-Person Photovoice Health Research With Equity-Owed Populations
The pragmatics of photovoice in health research have shifted since the inception of the methodology. Early photovoice centered ethnographic-like participatory and place-based methods where researchers were ever-present physically interacting with the participants, environments, and systems and structures that they studied. Photovoice has seen several modifications, however, including as researchers have moved to virtual and otherwise less immersi…
Managing Suicidality: The Experiences of Canadian-Based Racialized Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (GBTQ) Men
The interconnections of multiple minority stress and masculinities diversely operate to impact racialized gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GBTQ) men’s mental health outcomes. However, limited research has explored the connections to racialized GBTQ men’s suicidality within Canadian contexts. Guided by interpretive descriptive methodology and using virtual photovoice methods, the current study addresses this gap by drawing on the narratives …
‘It Puts You at Odds With Society’: Masculinity and Men’s Experiences of Mental Illness Stigma
The profound consequences of experiencing mental illness stigma are widely acknowledged. However, the gendered nature of stigma among men living with mood and anxiety disorders remains poorly understood. Despite dying by suicide at more than twice the rate of women, men are significantly less likely to be diagnosed and treated for depression and anxiety, a disparity often attributed to stigma. Drawing on concepts of structural, social, and self-s…
Data or Deception: Imposter Participants in Online Qualitative Research
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…
Diverse community perspectives on public health guidelines for social connection: A qualitative study in Canada
Loneliness and social isolation harm mental and physical health, yet existing public health strategies often fail to reflect the lived realities of equity-owed communities. To address this gap, our team has been developing potential public health guidelines aimed at fostering social connection in Canada. This study sought to engage five communities facing structural inequities (i.e. 2S/LGBTQ+ individuals, racialized communities, Indigenous people…
Two-Spirit, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (2SGBTQ) men’s suicidality in Canada: A Scoping Review
Suicide is a leading cause of death in Canada, with men being three times more likely to die from suicide compared with the rest of the population. Among Canadian men, those who are Two-Spirit, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2SGBTQ) are disproportionately impacted by suicidality. Drawing on this growing public health crisis, this current scoping review focuses on Canadian-based 2SGBTQ men to address the research question: What is known ab…
The Commercial Determinants of Nonalcoholic Beer: Redemption, Revenue, or Men’s Harm Reduction
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: A Narrative Analysis
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…
Designing Gender-Responsive Health Promotion Programs for Men: A Scoping Review
Over the past decade, there has been an increased emphasis on tailoring men’s health promotion programs. To optimize outcomes, participatory action research that involves and elicits feedback from end-users has been highlighted as important to creating gender-responsive interventions. In this scoping review, we examine (a) how participatory action research has been used to design health promotion interventions for men and (b) what constitutes a g…
Thought suppression strategies as mediators between traditional masculinity ideology and externalized depressive symptoms in men
The role of externalizing symptoms in men’s experiences of depression, including the link between externalizing symptoms and traditional masculinity ideologies (TMI), has emerged as a key consideration in men’s mental health. Within this context, men’s strategies to manage uncomfortable thoughts and emotions (e.g. restricted emotionality, alexithymia) have been featured. In order to respond to existing gaps in the literature, the purpose of this …
Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study
Picture this: Men building intimate partner relationships
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…
Men’s experiences of HeadsUpGuys: A strength-based case study
Objective: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death of men. This article reports on men’s experiences of using an e-mental health resource, HeadsUpGuys, which was designed to support men’s management and recovery from depression and suicidality. Design: Survey methodology was used to report men’s experiences of using the website. Constructs of interest included mental health literacy, stigma, attitudes, taking action, help-seeking and satisf…
Helping men build better intimate partner relationships: Canadian provider perspectives
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 …
“You kind of blame it on the alcohol, but. . .”: A discourse analysis of alcohol use and sexual consent among young men in Vancouver, Canada
There is growing awareness about issues of sexual consent, especially in autonomy-compromising or “non-ideal” contexts, including sex involving alcohol. Understanding the conditions needed for consensual sex to occur in this emergent milieu is critically important, especially for young men (ages 18–30 years) who normatively combine drinking alcohol with sex and are most often perpetrators of sexual violence. This study offers a discourse analysis…
Young Men and Relationship Breakdown: A Grounded Theory
Intimate partner relationship breakdown is a significant risk factor for suicide in men. Linked to this risk is the emotional upheaval tied to grief and loss—an area that has received little research attention in young men. This study aimed to theorize the emotional and social processes by which young men react to and recover from relationship breakdown. Twenty-two Australian men (aged 19–30 years) who had been through a breakup in the preceding …
Suicidality in men following relationship breakdown: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global data
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: A Photovoice Study
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…
Zoom Interviews: Benefits and Concessions
COVID-19 restrictions have transitioned in-person qualitative research interviews to virtual platforms. The purpose of the current article is to detail some benefits and concessions derived from our experiences of using Zoom to interview men about their intimate partner relationship breakdowns and service providers who work with men to build better relationships. Three benefits; 1) Rich therapeutic value, 2) There's no place like home, and 3) Red…
Constructions of masculinity following prostatectomy-induced impotence
Men's discourses of help-seeking in the context of depression
Depression is an illness increasingly constructed as a gendered mood disorder and consequently diagnosed in women more than men. The diagnostic criteria used for its assessment often perpetrate and reproduce gender stereotypes. The stigma associated with mental illness and the gendered elements of depression suggest there are likely numerous discourses that position, explain, and justify help-seeking practices. This qualitative study explored men…
Further Than the Eye Can See? Photo Elicitation and Research With Men
Photo elicitation studies have attracted modest attention in qualitative health research. However, few researchers have focused exclusively on men's health and/or illness experiences. In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of using photo elicitation among a subcohort of 19 prostate cancer survivors from a larger ethnographic study. Specifically, participants were asked to imagine that they were being paid to mount a photographic exhibi…
Embodied masculinity and androgen deprivation therapy
This paper describes the findings from an ethnographic study of 16 Anglo-Australian men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for advanced prostate cancer. Utilising a social constructionist gendered analysis, participants' experiences, particularly in relation to embodied masculinity, are described in the context of reduced testosterone that accompany ADT. The findings indicated that participants reformulated many ideals of hegemonic m…
You feel like you can't live anymore: Suicide from the perspectives of Canadian men who experience depression
Theorising masculinities and men's health: A brief history with a view to practice
Sex comparisons reveal men as more likely than women to die earlier and experience debilitating injury. Historically, this trend has been positioned as somewhat inevitable, an outcome of men’s ‘natural’ biologically charged tendencies for risk-taking and reluctance around help-seeking. More recently, gender research has emerged to describe cultural norms about masculinity and explore their relationships to men’s health and illness practices. Empi…
Recent Suicide Attempts Across Multiple Social Identities Among Gay and Bisexual Men: An Intersectionality Analysis
This study draws from intersectionality to describe variations in recent suicide attempts (RSA) among gay and bisexual men (GBM) across sociodemographics. Using survey data, logistic regression modeling explored RSA in two analytical stages: (1) the individual effects of each sociodemographic were measured; (2) two-way interaction terms between sociodemographics were tested and added to the models created in stage A. In stage A, only education an…
Photovoice Ethics: Critical Reflections From Men's Mental Health Research
As photovoice continues to grow as a method for researching health and illness, there is a need for rigorous discussions about ethical considerations. In this article, we discuss three key ethical issues arising from a recent photovoice study investigating men's depression and suicide. The first issue, indelible images, details the complexity of consent and copyright when participant-produced photographs are shown at exhibitions and online where …
Men’s Mental Health Services: The Case for a Masculinities Model
It is well understood that men are reticent in seeking help for mental health concerns. In the wake of government-funded campaigns across many Western nations that have sought to address this, noticeably absent have been the active development, promotion, dissemination, and rigorous evaluation of male-centered treatment styles. We argue that next-generation approaches must actively counteract unhelpful stereotypes, instead promoting diverse and h…
After the death of a friend: Young Men's grief and masculine identities
Young men can have an uncomfortable relationship with grief. Socially constructed masculine ideals dictate that men be stoic in the aftermath of loss, most often expressing their sadness and despair as anger. Perhaps because of alignment to such masculine ideals little research has been done to explore young men's grief--and chronicle the ways they think about loss, their responses and how they go about describing their identities after a tragic …
Stigma in Male Depression and Suicide: A Canadian Sex Comparison Study
Stigma in men's depression and suicide can restrict help-seeking, reduce treatment compliance and deter individuals from confiding in friends and family. In this article we report sex comparison findings from a national survey of English-speaking adult Canadians about stigmatized beliefs concerning male depression and suicide. Among respondents without direct experience of depression or suicide (n = 541) more than a third endorsed the view that m…
Gender relations, prostate cancer and diet: Re-inscribing hetero-normative food practices
Health Behaviors, Prostate Cancer, and Masculinities: A Life Course Perspective
Epidemiological data indicate that men are overrepresented in mortality rates attributed to both natural causes (e.g., ischemic heart disease) and certain deaths caused by external causes (e.g., motor vehicle accidents). Men's health behaviors are consistently linked to their poor health outcomes, and diverse explanations about what underpins men's health behaviors have been presented by commentators and researchers alike. Recently connections be…
Men, Masculinities, and Prostate Cancer: Australian and Canadian Patient Perspectives of Communication With Male Physicians
Patient-physician communication is vital in cancer care, and aspects of the patients' experiences provide insight into what constitutes effective cancer communication. Complexities inherent in prostate cancer regarding screening, treatment(s) efficacy, and side effects commonly form the basis of patient-physician discussions. However, the specificities of patient-physician communications, particularly in the male dyad, and the connections to masc…
Looking for Mr. PG: Masculinities and men’s depression in a northern resource-based Canadian community
He's more typically female because he's not afraid to cry: Connecting heterosexual gender relations and men's depression
Not the swab!' Young men's experiences with STI testing
In Canada, STI rates are high and rising, especially amongst young men. Meanwhile, the needs of young men regarding STI testing services are poorly understood, as are the socio-cultural and structural factors that influence young men's sexual health-seeking behaviours. To better understand this phenomenon, we draw on interviews with 45 men (ages 15-25) from British Columbia, Canada. Our research reveals how structural forces (e.g. STI testing pro…
You've Gotta Be That Tough Crust Exterior Man: Depression and Suicide in Rural-Based Men
Suicide rates in Canada are highest among rural men. Drawing on photovoice interviews with 13 women and two men living in a small rural Canadian town who lost a man to suicide, we inductively derived three themes to describe how contextual factors influence rural men's experiences of depression and responses to suicidal thoughts: (a) hiding depression and its cause, (b) manly self-medicating, and (c) mobilizing prevention. Participants strongly e…
Men managing cancer: A Gender Analysis
As researchers consider gendered patterns in men's prostate cancer experiences, little attention has been devoted to how men manage 'cancer', more generally. Drawing on the experiences of 30 Canadian men with a variety of cancer types, this article details how men engaged illness self-management and help-seeking activities with lay and professional support persons. Results indicate three broad responsive strategies: fortifying resources, maintain…
Masculinities, Work, and Retirement Among Older Men Who Experience Depression
The high incidence of depression among older men has been linked to numerous factors. In this qualitative descriptive study of 30 older, Canadian-based men who experienced depression, we explored the connections between participants' depression, masculinities, work, and retirement. Our analyses revealed three thematic findings. The recursive relationship between depression and work was reflected in depression impeding and emerging from paid work,…
Addressing Underrepresentation in Sex Work Research: Reflections on Designing a Purposeful Sampling Strategy
Men, transgender people, and those working in off-street locales have historically been underrepresented in sex work health research. Failure to include all sections of sex worker populations precludes comprehensive understandings about a range of population health issues, including potential variations in the manifestation of such issues within and between population subgroups, which in turn can impede the development of effective services and i…
Prostate cancer stories in the Canadian print media: Representations of Illness, Disease and Masculinities
Despite the popularity of print media as an information source for men with prostate cancer, the representation of prostate cancer within this medium remains relatively understudied. This article details the findings from an analysis of prostate cancer articles published in two Canadian national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the National Post, from January 2001 through to December 2006. The 817 prostate cancer articles published during this …
Women and prostate cancer support groups: The gender connect
Men's constructions of smoking in the context of women's tobacco reduction during pregnancy and postpartum
Men interviewing men about health and illness: Ten lessons learned
In this paper the authors share their experiences of conducting qualitative research interviews with men about health and illness. Practical issues including interviewer preparation and questioning techniques as well as the nuances of talking with men about matters that are commonly considered to be outside male expertise and interest are discussed. Guidance to ensure that interviews are successful includes recommendations for providing explicit …
Constructions of masculinity following prostatectomy-induced impotence
Men's constructions of smoking in the context of women's tobacco reduction during pregnancy and postpartum
Embodied masculinity and androgen deprivation therapy
This paper describes the findings from an ethnographic study of 16 Anglo-Australian men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for advanced prostate cancer. Utilising a social constructionist gendered analysis, participants' experiences, particularly in relation to embodied masculinity, are described in the context of reduced testosterone that accompany ADT. The findings indicated that participants reformulated many ideals of hegemonic m…
Truth Telling” and Cultural Assumptions in an Era of Informed Consent
Patient and healthcare provider communication is vital in cancer care and aspects of the patients' experiences provide valuable insight to what constitutes effective cancer communication. In this article we describe the communication experiences of patients from nondominant cultures who accessed Canadian-based cancer services. The findings enabled us to thoughtfully reflect on Western ideals about autonomy and responsibility and their relationshi…
Elderly South Asian Canadian Immigrant Men: Confirming and Disrupting Dominant Discourses About Masculinity and Men's Health
The experiences of elderly South Asian (SA) men who have immigrated to Canada provide unique insights to men's health and illness behaviors and beliefs. In this article, we describe the connections between masculinity, culture, and health among a cohort of 14 SA immigrant men. The findings indicated that participants' health behaviors were closely aligned to those of western men. However, a fine-grained analysis revealed how complex cultural conn…
Further Than the Eye Can See? Photo Elicitation and Research With Men
Photo elicitation studies have attracted modest attention in qualitative health research. However, few researchers have focused exclusively on men's health and/or illness experiences. In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of using photo elicitation among a subcohort of 19 prostate cancer survivors from a larger ethnographic study. Specifically, participants were asked to imagine that they were being paid to mount a photographic exhibi…
Men, Masculinities, and Prostate Cancer: Australian and Canadian Patient Perspectives of Communication With Male Physicians
Patient-physician communication is vital in cancer care, and aspects of the patients' experiences provide insight into what constitutes effective cancer communication. Complexities inherent in prostate cancer regarding screening, treatment(s) efficacy, and side effects commonly form the basis of patient-physician discussions. However, the specificities of patient-physician communications, particularly in the male dyad, and the connections to masc…
Men, depression and masculinities: A review and recommendations
Fewer men than women are diagnosed with depression, although commentaries about men's depression suggest that the lower reported rates may be due to the widespread use of generic diagnostic criteria that are not sensitive to depression in men, as well as men's reluctance to express concerns about their mental health or access professional health care services. This article provides an overview of the connections between depression and masculiniti…
Women and prostate cancer support groups: The gender connect
Connecting masculinities and physical activity among senior South Asian Canadian immigrant men
Senior South Asian (SA) men experience many health challenges which may be exacerbated by immigration. However, little is known about the health practices of this subgroup of men, including how they conceptualize connections between exercise, health and illness. An ethnographic qualitative study including fieldwork and participant observations at South Asian men's groups (SAMGs) based in British Columbia (BC), Canada and individual interviews wit…
The Self-Management of Uncertainty Among Men Undertaking Active Surveillance for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer
Asymptomatic men with low-risk, early-stage prostate cancer are eligible for active surveillance (AS), which offers a means to monitor the cancer while delaying treatment. However, AS operates within a unique set of circumstances that advocate monitoring, rather than immediate treatment, and men's health practices are central to coping with the inherent uncertainty of living with an untreated cancer. A qualitative study was completed to describe …
Patient Real-Time and 12-Month Retrospective Perceptions of Difficult Communications in the Cancer Diagnostic Period
Communication is a notoriously complex challenge in the cancer care context. Our program of research involves exploration of patient-provider communications across the cancer trajectory from the patient perspective.Toward this end, we have been following a cohort of 60 cancer patients, representing a range of tumor sites, from immediately after diagnosis through to recovery, chronic, or advanced disease. Drawing on interpretive description analyt…
Health Behaviors, Prostate Cancer, and Masculinities: A Life Course Perspective
Epidemiological data indicate that men are overrepresented in mortality rates attributed to both natural causes (e.g., ischemic heart disease) and certain deaths caused by external causes (e.g., motor vehicle accidents). Men's health behaviors are consistently linked to their poor health outcomes, and diverse explanations about what underpins men's health behaviors have been presented by commentators and researchers alike. Recently connections be…
Fathers' narratives of reducing and quitting smoking
Despite much attention on women's efforts to reduce or stop smoking during pregnancy and postpartum, less attention has been directed to fathers' experiences in modifying their smoking. Using narrative methods, interviews with 29 new fathers were examined to identify different ways in which men approached reducing or quitting smoking. Four storylines were identified: the cold turkey storyline framed quitting smoking as a snap decision with no nee…
Prostate cancer stories in the Canadian print media: Representations of Illness, Disease and Masculinities
Despite the popularity of print media as an information source for men with prostate cancer, the representation of prostate cancer within this medium remains relatively understudied. This article details the findings from an analysis of prostate cancer articles published in two Canadian national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the National Post, from January 2001 through to December 2006. The 817 prostate cancer articles published during this …
Tobacco use patterns in traditional and shared parenting families: A gender perspective
Decisions about tobacco use are made within relationships and social contexts that vary based on each individual's relationship to tobacco, divisions of domestic labour and childcare, and other activities that impact tobacco use. Sensitive approaches to tobacco reduction for women and men must be developed building on greater understanding of gender relations and how tobacco use is integrated in spousal and parental roles
The missing picture’: Tobacco use through the eyes of smokers
Photographic methods have the potential to generate information that may assist in developing tobacco control messaging and programming that speaks to smokers' perceptions of their tobacco use
Prostate cancer, masculinity and food. Rationales for perceived diet change
Fathers: Locating Smoking and Masculinity in the Postpartum
Many fathers mitigate the harm of their smoking by physically separating their smoking from their children and child care activities.The aim of this study was to empirically locate smoking and masculinities by detailing the highly gendered nature of the everyday places where fathers smoke. A masculinities framework was used to interpret interview and photovoice data drawn from an ethnographic study of fathers who smoke. Twenty participants comple…
Connecting Masculinity and Depression Among International Male University Students
International university students can experience isolation amid academic pressures. Such circumstances can manifest as or exacerbate depression. This qualitative study involved 15 international male students at a Canadian university who were diagnosed or self-identified as having depression. Individual interviews revealed men's perspectives about causes, implications, and management of depression. Participants intertwined sex- and gender-based fa…
Masculinities and college men's depression: Recursive relationships
Depression is a significant problem among college men. This qualitative study examines the interplay between masculinities and depression among Canadian-based college men who self-identified or were formally diagnosed with depression. The resulting three themes – mind matters, stalled intimacy and lethargic discontent – reveal the recursive relationships between masculinities and depression whereby depression quashed men’s aspirations for embodyi…
Theorising masculinities and men's health: A brief history with a view to practice
Sex comparisons reveal men as more likely than women to die earlier and experience debilitating injury. Historically, this trend has been positioned as somewhat inevitable, an outcome of men’s ‘natural’ biologically charged tendencies for risk-taking and reluctance around help-seeking. More recently, gender research has emerged to describe cultural norms about masculinity and explore their relationships to men’s health and illness practices. Empi…
Unclean fathers, responsible men: Smoking, stigma and fatherhood
In this article, we report on the experiences of men who are smokers in the context of new fatherhood and explore the intersections of stigma, masculinities, and contemporary fathering. The men in this ethnographic study reveal both internalised and externalised stigma and describe situations and feelings when they became aware of the stigmatising qualities of smoking as new fathers. Fathers, expectant and new, are beginning to experience the foc…
Masculinities, diet and senior Punjabi Sikh immigrant men: Food for Western thought
The high rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Punjabi Sikh (PS) men are often linked to diet. Although some high fat and sugar foods in both traditional and Western foods negatively influence these illnesses, little is known about what underpins PS immigrant men's dietary practices. This article details the connections between masculinities and diet to reveal how varying gendered ideals can inform and influence the practices of seni…
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