Shona Crabb
Biographic Data
| ID | 83005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shona Crabb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shona |
| FAMILY NAME | Crabb |
| SIGNATURE | CRABB S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3651-2916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sneak peek: Food, waste and packaging characteristics of South Australian school children’s lunchboxes
Objective: To characterise children’s lunchbox contents for food, waste and packaging. Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Lunchboxes were photographed at two time points on the same day: before first morning break to capture food and packaging and post-lunch break to capture food waste. Contents were coded using an audit tool developed using REDCap. Setting: Twenty-three sites across metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia including fo…
Constructions of athlete mental health post-retirement: A discursive analysis of stigmatising and legitimising versions of transition distress in the Australian broadcast media
Athletes are vulnerable to experiencing mental health disorders, yet, disclosure and help-seeking around mental health remains low, with stigma the most widely reported barrier. However, the ways in which stigma around mental health may be produced (or resisted) in dominant constructions of athlete mental health remain under examined. This study explores constructions of athlete mental health into retirement in an example of Australian broadcast …
An exploratory study of men’s access to mental health services
Men with mental ill health face multiple barriers to accessing support services. While there is existing work specifically addressing men’s individual help-seeking behaviors, health providers need to better understand broader contexts about access to mental health services. Men seeking help for health-related issues are often stigmatized, and increasingly so when seeking mental health services. This is thought to partly explain the disparities in…
Critical considerations of workplace flexibility “for all” and gendered outcomes: Men being flexible about their flexibility
Flexible working arrangements (FWA) “for all, from the CEO down”, have begun to be promoted in Australia, heralded as a means to finally achieve gender equity in the workplace. However, workplaces are gendered spaces in which masculine traits and unconstrained availability are usually highly valued, as encapsulated in the notion of the ideal worker, and women are seen as lacking or “other”. We undertook a study to examine how upper level managers…
Unfortunately I'm a Massively Heavy Sleeper: An Analysis of Fathers' Constructions of Parenting
Expectations for fathers have changed over the past few decades-research has shown that many men express more egalitarian views toward fatherhood and being more involved in parenting, particularly in the caretaking and emotional aspects of parenting. However, despite intentions expressed before parenthood, parenting will often play out along more traditional, gendered lines. In this research, we demonstrate how discourses used by fathers might wo…
We Were Totally Supportive, of Course: How People Talk About Supporting a Significant Other to Stop or Reduce Their Drinking
Despite the strong influence our significant others have on health behaviors such as alcohol consumption, little is known about when they are willing to provide support for changing such behaviors. We conducted interviews with 13 Australian adults who had a partner, friend, or family member who stopped or significantly reduced their alcohol consumption within the past 2 years, to understand how these significant others accounted for providing sup…
I might be a bit of a front runner’: An analysis of men's uptake of flexible work arrangements and masculine identity
In most western countries, men's use of flexible work arrangements (FWA) is low. Intersections of gender and organizational culture are likely to contribute to this circumstance but have received little attention. This research aims to investigate men's experiences of FWA use and non‐use to understand contextual factors influencing men's decisions and how men construct their identities in relation to work, parenting and FWA. Based on semi‐structu…
Lay perspectives on the costs and risks of forgiving
In this study, we directly investigated, for the first time, lay perspectives on the costs and risks of forgiveness ( N = 130). Participants described previously experienced situations where forgiveness was costly, from the perspective of a grantor, a recipient, and as a third‐party observer. They also identified occasions when they thought it would be risky to forgive. We employed complementary quantitative and thematic analysis strategies to ex…
‘I cannot explain it. I knew it was wrong’: A public account of cigarette smoking in pregnancy
In this paper, we examine a situated example of the media’s (re)production of shared understandings around smoking, pregnancy and health. Through a discursive lens, we address the way in which Australian media personality Chrissie Swan accounted, on radio, for her continued smoking while pregnant after photographic evidence of her tobacco use entered the public domain. We argue that Swan’s account of her smoking privileges a version of ‘the good …
An examination of Australian newspaper coverage of the link between alcohol and cancer 2005 to 2013
Information about a link between alcohol and cancer is available in the Australian newsprint media, but may be hidden within and thus overshadowed by other health-related stories. Strategic collaboration between health promoting organisations, and exploitation of 'churnalism' and journalists' preferences for ready-made 'copy' may facilitate increased presence and accuracy of the alcohol-cancer message
Crying wolf? Australian adolescents’ perceptions of the ambiguity of visible indicators of mental health and authenticity of mental illness
Young people’s perspectives about mental health concepts shape both their interactions with sufferers of mental illness and their actions related to their own mental health. The current study employed a cross-sectional qualitative design to explore how adolescents (aged 12–18 years) speak about mental health and illness in order to gain insight into young people’s perceptions and experiences and contribute to shaping approaches to policy and prac…
Males Don't Wanna Bring Anything Up To Their Doctor: Men’s Discourses of Depression
Men experiencing depression may present with externalizing behaviors including avoidance, getting angry, or finding distractions rather than seeking help. General practitioners report that depression is harder to diagnose in men than in women. Research has not typically focused on men's accounts of depression; thus, the current study uses an exploratory design to better understand men's subjectivities of depression. A thematic framework informed …
Everything causes cancer’: How Australians respond to the message that alcohol causes cancer
Over 5000 Australians are diagnosed with alcohol-related cancers annually, with growing evidence that low-levels of chronic alcohol consumption significantly increases cancer risk. Public knowledge of the link between alcohol and cancer is limited and, therefore, alcohol consumers may be inadvertently putting themselves at increased risk of developing cancer. Informing the community of alcohol-related cancer risk is important to reduce the burden…
Representations of women on Australian breast cancer websites: Cultural 'inclusivity' and marginalisation
Despite 'cultural competence' rhetoric within health care, women's varied breast cancer experiences are often overlooked within the 'pink ribbon culture' of breast cancer, which focuses on white, heterosexual, middle-class women's accounts. We present a multimodal critical discourse analysis of four Australian breast cancer organisations' websites, which provide information and support to women. We examine how they represent the needs and experie…
‘Take ownership of your condition’: Australian women’s health and risk talk in relation to their experiences of breast cancer
Western understandings of breast cancer are primarily shaped both by neo-liberal, individual-oriented approaches to health and illness and by ‘consumer-led’ health movements. In this ‘healthist’ context, diagnosis of breast cancer typically marks a crisis in women’s lives, which may prompt them to account for the development of the illness and reposition themselves as self-governing individuals who have control over their health and who can manag…
The normalisation of body regulation and monitoring practices in elite sport: A discursive analysis of news delivery sequences during skinfold testing
Prevalence of disordered eating is higher in athlete populations than in the general population. This paper explores the sociocultural context within which athletes are vulnerable to poor health behaviours and potentially poor mental health. Within sport settings, dominant ideals of body regulation and self-surveillance are normalised and leave athletes vulnerable to eating disorders. This paper explores how such ideals and understandings around …
Reading Between the Lines: Applying Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to Online Constructions of Breast Cancer
The Internet offers rich opportunities for examining the construction of health and illness through multiple visual and textual modes. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) is a method that provides researchers with the tools to critically examine online constructions of health and illness. We discuss our use of MCDA to analyse four Australian breast cancer websites. We examine how breast cancer is constructed through the online presentat…
Online Research Methods in Psychology: Methodological Opportunities for Critical Qualitative Research
This special issue showcases the contributions of mostly early career researchers to illustrate the methodological opportunities and challenges that arise in doing critical qualitative research on the Internet. As we discuss, the articles included in this special issue demonstrate innovative qualitative methods that can be applied to Internet research and the steps that need to be taken to conduct rigorous and ethical qualitative research, from a…
If you grow them, know them ’: Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context
The ‘pink ribbon culture’ dominates understandings of breast cancer in Western societies. We describe this as an ‘illness culture’, consisting of neoliberal discourses and practices, which construct the breast cancer experience. We take a feminist post-structuralist approach to review current breast cancer lay materials available to women in Australia, to examine how breast cancer is discursively constructed within this context. Further, we consi…
We've Got to Break Down the Shame: Portrayals of Men’s Depression
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated w…
Barriers and facilitators to effective type 2 diabetes management in a rural context: A qualitative study with diabetic patients and health professionals
Although effective type 2 diabetes management is essential for the prevention of complications, it is rarely carried out. Type 2 diabetes deaths in rural areas are higher than in metropolitan areas. A focus group ( n = 8) and telephone interviews with patients ( n = 10), and telephone interviews with health professionals ( n = 18) in rural areas were conducted to examine this issue in a rural context. Inductive thematic analysis was used to gener…
Career transitions and identity: A discursive psychological approach to exploring athlete identity in retirement and the transition back into elite sport
Athletes’ career transitions have received widespread research attention and have been identified as potentially distressing for athletes. Yet, the transition back into elite sport following retirement, although rare, has not been a focus of research attention. The concept of athlete identity has been widely researched within sport psychology to give insight into the varied experiences of athletes, especially in relation to the transition out of …
Discursive constructions of infant feeding: The dilemma of mothers’ ‘guilt’
Recent feminist and sociological scholarship has problematised the underlying medical assumptions in the established literature on infant feeding by attending to the social and discursive construction of breastfeeding practice. Such work has suggested that the pervasive cultural discourse around breastfeeding as the ‘morally correct’ choice has implications for actual decisions and practices as well as subjective judgements and feelings, particul…
Accountability, monitoring and surveillance: Body regulation in elite sport
Regulation of athletes' bodies is commonplace in sporting environments, despite evidence that athletes have a higher risk of developing disordered eating than non-athletes. This article explores how athletes' bodies are regulated in practice, building on examinations of body surveillance in other contexts. Over 40 interactions occurring during body monitoring are analysed. Athletes, pre-emptively or following an explicit request, accounted for th…
Genetically modified food in the news: Media representations of the GM debate in the UK
This paper analyses a corpus of articles on GM crops and food which appeared in six UK newspapers in the first three months of 2004, the year following the GM Nation? debate (2003). Using the methods of critical discourse analysis we focus on how specific and pervasive representations of the major stakeholders in the national debate on GM—the British public, the British government, the science of GM, and biotechnology companies—served significant…
I might be a bit of a front runner’: An analysis of men's uptake of flexible work arrangements and masculine identity
In most western countries, men's use of flexible work arrangements (FWA) is low. Intersections of gender and organizational culture are likely to contribute to this circumstance but have received little attention. This research aims to investigate men's experiences of FWA use and non‐use to understand contextual factors influencing men's decisions and how men construct their identities in relation to work, parenting and FWA. Based on semi‐structu…
If you grow them, know them ’: Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context
The ‘pink ribbon culture’ dominates understandings of breast cancer in Western societies. We describe this as an ‘illness culture’, consisting of neoliberal discourses and practices, which construct the breast cancer experience. We take a feminist post-structuralist approach to review current breast cancer lay materials available to women in Australia, to examine how breast cancer is discursively constructed within this context. Further, we consi…
Critical considerations of workplace flexibility “for all” and gendered outcomes: Men being flexible about their flexibility
Flexible working arrangements (FWA) “for all, from the CEO down”, have begun to be promoted in Australia, heralded as a means to finally achieve gender equity in the workplace. However, workplaces are gendered spaces in which masculine traits and unconstrained availability are usually highly valued, as encapsulated in the notion of the ideal worker, and women are seen as lacking or “other”. We undertook a study to examine how upper level managers…
Online Research Methods in Psychology: Methodological Opportunities for Critical Qualitative Research
This special issue showcases the contributions of mostly early career researchers to illustrate the methodological opportunities and challenges that arise in doing critical qualitative research on the Internet. As we discuss, the articles included in this special issue demonstrate innovative qualitative methods that can be applied to Internet research and the steps that need to be taken to conduct rigorous and ethical qualitative research, from a…
Reading Between the Lines: Applying Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to Online Constructions of Breast Cancer
The Internet offers rich opportunities for examining the construction of health and illness through multiple visual and textual modes. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) is a method that provides researchers with the tools to critically examine online constructions of health and illness. We discuss our use of MCDA to analyse four Australian breast cancer websites. We examine how breast cancer is constructed through the online presentat…
Discursive constructions of infant feeding: The dilemma of mothers’ ‘guilt’
Recent feminist and sociological scholarship has problematised the underlying medical assumptions in the established literature on infant feeding by attending to the social and discursive construction of breastfeeding practice. Such work has suggested that the pervasive cultural discourse around breastfeeding as the ‘morally correct’ choice has implications for actual decisions and practices as well as subjective judgements and feelings, particul…
Accountability, monitoring and surveillance: Body regulation in elite sport
Regulation of athletes' bodies is commonplace in sporting environments, despite evidence that athletes have a higher risk of developing disordered eating than non-athletes. This article explores how athletes' bodies are regulated in practice, building on examinations of body surveillance in other contexts. Over 40 interactions occurring during body monitoring are analysed. Athletes, pre-emptively or following an explicit request, accounted for th…
Unfortunately I'm a Massively Heavy Sleeper: An Analysis of Fathers' Constructions of Parenting
Expectations for fathers have changed over the past few decades-research has shown that many men express more egalitarian views toward fatherhood and being more involved in parenting, particularly in the caretaking and emotional aspects of parenting. However, despite intentions expressed before parenthood, parenting will often play out along more traditional, gendered lines. In this research, we demonstrate how discourses used by fathers might wo…
Males Don't Wanna Bring Anything Up To Their Doctor: Men’s Discourses of Depression
Men experiencing depression may present with externalizing behaviors including avoidance, getting angry, or finding distractions rather than seeking help. General practitioners report that depression is harder to diagnose in men than in women. Research has not typically focused on men's accounts of depression; thus, the current study uses an exploratory design to better understand men's subjectivities of depression. A thematic framework informed …
Representations of women on Australian breast cancer websites: Cultural 'inclusivity' and marginalisation
Despite 'cultural competence' rhetoric within health care, women's varied breast cancer experiences are often overlooked within the 'pink ribbon culture' of breast cancer, which focuses on white, heterosexual, middle-class women's accounts. We present a multimodal critical discourse analysis of four Australian breast cancer organisations' websites, which provide information and support to women. We examine how they represent the needs and experie…
Crying wolf? Australian adolescents’ perceptions of the ambiguity of visible indicators of mental health and authenticity of mental illness
Young people’s perspectives about mental health concepts shape both their interactions with sufferers of mental illness and their actions related to their own mental health. The current study employed a cross-sectional qualitative design to explore how adolescents (aged 12–18 years) speak about mental health and illness in order to gain insight into young people’s perceptions and experiences and contribute to shaping approaches to policy and prac…
We've Got to Break Down the Shame: Portrayals of Men’s Depression
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated w…
Barriers and facilitators to effective type 2 diabetes management in a rural context: A qualitative study with diabetic patients and health professionals
Although effective type 2 diabetes management is essential for the prevention of complications, it is rarely carried out. Type 2 diabetes deaths in rural areas are higher than in metropolitan areas. A focus group ( n = 8) and telephone interviews with patients ( n = 10), and telephone interviews with health professionals ( n = 18) in rural areas were conducted to examine this issue in a rural context. Inductive thematic analysis was used to gener…
Fiona Farewells Her Breasts’: A popular magazine account of breast cancer prevention
In this paper, the authors examine a popular media account of prophylactic mastectomy—the surgical removal of 'healthy' breasts for preventive purposes—focusing on the ways in which the account works to normalize what might alternatively be considered extreme preventive health behaviour. Although the procedure remains controversial, prophylactic mastectomy is increasingly presented as a treatment option for women considered to be at high risk of …
Genes and families in the media: Implications of genetic discourse for constructions of the 'family
Many critics have previously examined the ways in which the pervasive construction of the family in Western nations – that of the heterosexual nuclear family – is normalised and naturalised in a range of contexts. This paper examines discourses of genetics and the ‘family’ in a series of UK newspaper articles, many of which are non-normative family forms, including families who have used assisted reproductive technologies, and lesbian and gay par…
A Qualitative Approach to the Study of Causal Reasoning in Natural Language: The Domain of Genes, Risks and Cancer
Causal reasoning has been studied extensively in experimental cognitive psychology. Generally, the focus is on how individuals learn causal relationships in their environment through observation or interventions. Although it seems self-evident that causal beliefs about some phenomena are learnt largely through linguistic channels, to our knowledge no empirical studies have addressed this issue. In this paper we investigate causal reasoning that i…
Genetically modified food in the news: Media representations of the GM debate in the UK
This paper analyses a corpus of articles on GM crops and food which appeared in six UK newspapers in the first three months of 2004, the year following the GM Nation? debate (2003). Using the methods of critical discourse analysis we focus on how specific and pervasive representations of the major stakeholders in the national debate on GM—the British public, the British government, the science of GM, and biotechnology companies—served significant…
Discursive constructions of infant feeding: The dilemma of mothers’ ‘guilt’
Recent feminist and sociological scholarship has problematised the underlying medical assumptions in the established literature on infant feeding by attending to the social and discursive construction of breastfeeding practice. Such work has suggested that the pervasive cultural discourse around breastfeeding as the ‘morally correct’ choice has implications for actual decisions and practices as well as subjective judgements and feelings, particul…
Accountability, monitoring and surveillance: Body regulation in elite sport
Regulation of athletes' bodies is commonplace in sporting environments, despite evidence that athletes have a higher risk of developing disordered eating than non-athletes. This article explores how athletes' bodies are regulated in practice, building on examinations of body surveillance in other contexts. Over 40 interactions occurring during body monitoring are analysed. Athletes, pre-emptively or following an explicit request, accounted for th…
Career transitions and identity: A discursive psychological approach to exploring athlete identity in retirement and the transition back into elite sport
Athletes’ career transitions have received widespread research attention and have been identified as potentially distressing for athletes. Yet, the transition back into elite sport following retirement, although rare, has not been a focus of research attention. The concept of athlete identity has been widely researched within sport psychology to give insight into the varied experiences of athletes, especially in relation to the transition out of …
If you grow them, know them ’: Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context
The ‘pink ribbon culture’ dominates understandings of breast cancer in Western societies. We describe this as an ‘illness culture’, consisting of neoliberal discourses and practices, which construct the breast cancer experience. We take a feminist post-structuralist approach to review current breast cancer lay materials available to women in Australia, to examine how breast cancer is discursively constructed within this context. Further, we consi…
We've Got to Break Down the Shame: Portrayals of Men’s Depression
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated w…
Barriers and facilitators to effective type 2 diabetes management in a rural context: A qualitative study with diabetic patients and health professionals
Although effective type 2 diabetes management is essential for the prevention of complications, it is rarely carried out. Type 2 diabetes deaths in rural areas are higher than in metropolitan areas. A focus group ( n = 8) and telephone interviews with patients ( n = 10), and telephone interviews with health professionals ( n = 18) in rural areas were conducted to examine this issue in a rural context. Inductive thematic analysis was used to gener…
‘Take ownership of your condition’: Australian women’s health and risk talk in relation to their experiences of breast cancer
Western understandings of breast cancer are primarily shaped both by neo-liberal, individual-oriented approaches to health and illness and by ‘consumer-led’ health movements. In this ‘healthist’ context, diagnosis of breast cancer typically marks a crisis in women’s lives, which may prompt them to account for the development of the illness and reposition themselves as self-governing individuals who have control over their health and who can manag…
The normalisation of body regulation and monitoring practices in elite sport: A discursive analysis of news delivery sequences during skinfold testing
Prevalence of disordered eating is higher in athlete populations than in the general population. This paper explores the sociocultural context within which athletes are vulnerable to poor health behaviours and potentially poor mental health. Within sport settings, dominant ideals of body regulation and self-surveillance are normalised and leave athletes vulnerable to eating disorders. This paper explores how such ideals and understandings around …
Reading Between the Lines: Applying Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to Online Constructions of Breast Cancer
The Internet offers rich opportunities for examining the construction of health and illness through multiple visual and textual modes. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) is a method that provides researchers with the tools to critically examine online constructions of health and illness. We discuss our use of MCDA to analyse four Australian breast cancer websites. We examine how breast cancer is constructed through the online presentat…
Online Research Methods in Psychology: Methodological Opportunities for Critical Qualitative Research
This special issue showcases the contributions of mostly early career researchers to illustrate the methodological opportunities and challenges that arise in doing critical qualitative research on the Internet. As we discuss, the articles included in this special issue demonstrate innovative qualitative methods that can be applied to Internet research and the steps that need to be taken to conduct rigorous and ethical qualitative research, from a…
Everything causes cancer’: How Australians respond to the message that alcohol causes cancer
Over 5000 Australians are diagnosed with alcohol-related cancers annually, with growing evidence that low-levels of chronic alcohol consumption significantly increases cancer risk. Public knowledge of the link between alcohol and cancer is limited and, therefore, alcohol consumers may be inadvertently putting themselves at increased risk of developing cancer. Informing the community of alcohol-related cancer risk is important to reduce the burden…
Representations of women on Australian breast cancer websites: Cultural 'inclusivity' and marginalisation
Despite 'cultural competence' rhetoric within health care, women's varied breast cancer experiences are often overlooked within the 'pink ribbon culture' of breast cancer, which focuses on white, heterosexual, middle-class women's accounts. We present a multimodal critical discourse analysis of four Australian breast cancer organisations' websites, which provide information and support to women. We examine how they represent the needs and experie…
Lay perspectives on the costs and risks of forgiving
In this study, we directly investigated, for the first time, lay perspectives on the costs and risks of forgiveness ( N = 130). Participants described previously experienced situations where forgiveness was costly, from the perspective of a grantor, a recipient, and as a third‐party observer. They also identified occasions when they thought it would be risky to forgive. We employed complementary quantitative and thematic analysis strategies to ex…
‘I cannot explain it. I knew it was wrong’: A public account of cigarette smoking in pregnancy
In this paper, we examine a situated example of the media’s (re)production of shared understandings around smoking, pregnancy and health. Through a discursive lens, we address the way in which Australian media personality Chrissie Swan accounted, on radio, for her continued smoking while pregnant after photographic evidence of her tobacco use entered the public domain. We argue that Swan’s account of her smoking privileges a version of ‘the good …
An examination of Australian newspaper coverage of the link between alcohol and cancer 2005 to 2013
Information about a link between alcohol and cancer is available in the Australian newsprint media, but may be hidden within and thus overshadowed by other health-related stories. Strategic collaboration between health promoting organisations, and exploitation of 'churnalism' and journalists' preferences for ready-made 'copy' may facilitate increased presence and accuracy of the alcohol-cancer message
Crying wolf? Australian adolescents’ perceptions of the ambiguity of visible indicators of mental health and authenticity of mental illness
Young people’s perspectives about mental health concepts shape both their interactions with sufferers of mental illness and their actions related to their own mental health. The current study employed a cross-sectional qualitative design to explore how adolescents (aged 12–18 years) speak about mental health and illness in order to gain insight into young people’s perceptions and experiences and contribute to shaping approaches to policy and prac…
Males Don't Wanna Bring Anything Up To Their Doctor: Men’s Discourses of Depression
Men experiencing depression may present with externalizing behaviors including avoidance, getting angry, or finding distractions rather than seeking help. General practitioners report that depression is harder to diagnose in men than in women. Research has not typically focused on men's accounts of depression; thus, the current study uses an exploratory design to better understand men's subjectivities of depression. A thematic framework informed …
I might be a bit of a front runner’: An analysis of men's uptake of flexible work arrangements and masculine identity
In most western countries, men's use of flexible work arrangements (FWA) is low. Intersections of gender and organizational culture are likely to contribute to this circumstance but have received little attention. This research aims to investigate men's experiences of FWA use and non‐use to understand contextual factors influencing men's decisions and how men construct their identities in relation to work, parenting and FWA. Based on semi‐structu…
We Were Totally Supportive, of Course: How People Talk About Supporting a Significant Other to Stop or Reduce Their Drinking
Despite the strong influence our significant others have on health behaviors such as alcohol consumption, little is known about when they are willing to provide support for changing such behaviors. We conducted interviews with 13 Australian adults who had a partner, friend, or family member who stopped or significantly reduced their alcohol consumption within the past 2 years, to understand how these significant others accounted for providing sup…
Unfortunately I'm a Massively Heavy Sleeper: An Analysis of Fathers' Constructions of Parenting
Expectations for fathers have changed over the past few decades-research has shown that many men express more egalitarian views toward fatherhood and being more involved in parenting, particularly in the caretaking and emotional aspects of parenting. However, despite intentions expressed before parenthood, parenting will often play out along more traditional, gendered lines. In this research, we demonstrate how discourses used by fathers might wo…
Critical considerations of workplace flexibility “for all” and gendered outcomes: Men being flexible about their flexibility
Flexible working arrangements (FWA) “for all, from the CEO down”, have begun to be promoted in Australia, heralded as a means to finally achieve gender equity in the workplace. However, workplaces are gendered spaces in which masculine traits and unconstrained availability are usually highly valued, as encapsulated in the notion of the ideal worker, and women are seen as lacking or “other”. We undertook a study to examine how upper level managers…
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