Masculinities, emotions and men's suicide.
emotions
masculinity
men's health
mental health
qualitative research
suicide
Journal
Sociology of health & illness
ISSN: 1467-9566
Titre abrégé: Sociol Health Illn
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8205036
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2021
05 2021
Historique:
revised:
04
02
2021
received:
13
03
2020
accepted:
10
02
2021
pubmed:
23
3
2021
medline:
27
10
2021
entrez:
22
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Men account for approximately 75% of the one million annual suicide deaths worldwide. Emerging research indicates a link between suicide and men's active pursuit of hegemonic masculinity via emotional restriction. However, little is known of the continuum of suicidal men's emotional practice, and particularly how men mobilise emotions to actively pursue or resist hegemonic masculine ideals. This theorised life-history study aimed to explore the emotional lives of 18 Australian men who had attempted suicide. Findings indicate that men in this study experienced a range of emotions. However, during childhood, they learned that expressing emotions such as sadness reduced masculine standing, whereas expressing emotions such as anger through acts of violence could enhance masculine status. Although the gendering of emotions offered participants multiple avenues of action to pursue or contest masculine ideals, they remained vulnerable to suicide. For some men, it became impossible to conceal escalating feelings of distress. For other men, displays of anger and violence resulted in job loss, relationship breakdown or criminal conviction. Many participants indicated that suicide presented a means of ending painful emotions. Paradoxically, suicide could also become an alternative means of demonstrating masculinity, whereby the body became both the vehicle and object of violence.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33751613
doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13257
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
910-927Informations de copyright
© 2021 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.
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