'You don’t really want to hide it...': exploring young working-class men’s mental health literacy

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dc.contributor.authorStahl, G.
dc.contributor.authorAdams, B.
dc.contributor.authorWang, J.
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.
dc.description.abstractAustralia’s National Men’s Health Strategy 2020–2030 considers men from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds to be a priority population and foregrounds the importance of initiatives focused on empowerment. This article seeks to explore young working-class men’s experiences with mental health in their years immediately following compulsory schooling. Drawing data from a larger study, we explore five young men who openly discussed their mental health. The analysis focuses on where they struggled, how they struggled and what self-care they enacted. Adopting a health literacy framework, we highlight two broad themes: closing yourself off and opening up. While historically working-class manhood has been centred around stoicism and a reluctance to admitting vulnerability, these case studies suggest that the identity work around masculinities and mental health may be experiencing change.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityGarth Stahl, Ben Adams and Jianing Wang
dc.identifier.citationDisability & Society, 2024; 39(11):2878-2899
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09687599.2023.2228469
dc.identifier.issn0968-7599
dc.identifier.issn1360-0508
dc.identifier.orcidAdams, B. [0000-0001-9471-3914]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/148363
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170100510
dc.rights© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2228469
dc.subjectWorking-class masculinity; mental health; mental health literacy; social change
dc.title'You don’t really want to hide it...': exploring young working-class men’s mental health literacy
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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