Applied Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK.
Sociol Health Illn. 2019 Jun;41(5):900-916. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12869. Epub 2019 Feb 20.
Based on focus group discussions of self-generated photographs of individuals aged 19-67 resident in urban Northwest England, this article examines the health narratives of men facing disadvantage because of economic hardship and/or mental health difficulty (mhd). In contrast to stereotypes of men as uncomfortable with emotions linked to vulnerability, we explore how such men can develop within self-help groups the kind of emotional resources that encourage health-seeking behaviours. Our argument contrasts with theories that risk denying/diminishing working-class men's emotional reflexivity or that frame reflexivity (thought on feelings and behaviour to effect life changes) as individualised and more available to middle-class (younger) men. We argue that participant accounts indicate development of more collective emotional and epistemic resources from a position of subordinated masculinity. This argument challenges stereotypes of working-class men as lacking in knowledge/skill in health and self-care. Collective reflexivity over health/wellbeing was particularly visible in three main accounts that emerged during focus groups: involvement in self-help 'communities of practice', use of local aesthetic spaces and negotiation with/qualified challenge to healthy eating discourse.
基于对居住在英格兰西北部城市的 19-67 岁个体自行拍摄的照片进行的焦点小组讨论，本文考察了因经济困难和/或心理健康问题而处于不利地位的男性的健康叙事。与男性对脆弱相关情感感到不适的刻板印象相反，我们探讨了这些男性如何在自助团体中发展出鼓励寻求健康行为的情感资源。我们的观点与那些否认/削弱工人阶级男性情感反思性的理论形成对比，或者将反思性（对情感和行为的思考以影响生活变化）框定为个体化的，并且更适合中产阶级（年轻）男性。我们认为，参与者的描述表明，从处于劣势地位的男性气质的角度出发，发展出了更具集体性的情感和认识论资源。这一观点挑战了工人阶级男性在健康和自我保健方面缺乏知识/技能的刻板印象。在焦点小组中出现的三个主要描述中，特别明显的是对健康/幸福的集体反思：参与自助“实践共同体”，利用当地的美学空间，以及对健康饮食话语的协商/有条件的挑战。
