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Men's mental health help-seeking behaviors: an intersectional analysis
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Men seek mental health treatment less often than women. The present study sought to elucidate identities and individual difference characteristics that are associated with enhanced or decreased mental health help-seeking in a large national sample of U.S. men. Using data from 4,825 U.S. men aged 20 to 59 years, main effects of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, income-poverty ratio, relationship status, depression symptoms, and body mass index were explored within the sample of men as well as intersections of these predictors with racial/ethnic group identity. While the results of main effects testing generally supported prior research (i.e., greater mental health care help-seeking among White men, nonheterosexual men, men not in relationships, older men, and more depressed men), when examined associations across racial/ethnic groups, the direction and strength of these associations showed notable variation-variation unaccounted for in prior research. These findings highlight the need for future theory building and research that accounts for this variation at the intersection of race/ethnicity and these specific predictors of help-seeking behavior among men.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Parent, M. C., Hammer, J. H., Bradstreet, T. C., Schwartz, E. N., & Jobe, T.
- Affiliations
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Iowa State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Parent, Mike C.
- Venue
- American Journal of Men's Health
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-01-11
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 64-73
- ISSN
- 1557-9883 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-9891
- PMC
- PMC5734540
- OpenAlex
- W2402795941
- Cited by
- 124
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 4.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Men s Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD042849)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Keywords
- men's mental health, help-seeking, intersectionality, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, relationship status, depressive symptoms, body mass index, age
- MeSH terms
- Help-Seeking Behavior, Adult, Age Factors, Cross-Sectional Studies, Gender Identity, Humans, Male, Mental Health, Mental Health Services, Middle Aged, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Surveys and Questionnaires, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Databases, Factual, Risk Assessment, Men's Health, Young Adult
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