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ArticleAmerican journal of men's health2016

I Would Rather Just Go Through With It Than Be Called a Wussy: An Exploration of How a Group of Young South African Men Think and Talk About Suicide.

Birte Meissner, Jason Bantjes, Ashraf Kagee

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Article in American journal of men's health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Birte MeissnerDepartment of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Jason BantjesDepartment of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa jbantjes@sun.ac.za.
Ashraf KageeDepartment of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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The Global Partnership for AIDS Behavioral Research: South Africa and U.S.R24AA022919 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ROTHERAM-BORUS, MARY JANE · 2013 to 2017
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Worldwide suicide is a deeply gendered phenomenon. In South Africa, approximately 80% of suicide completers are male. This study aimed to investigate how a group of young South African men understand and think about suicidal behavior. In-depth semistructured interviews and thematic analysis using a grounded theory approach revealed that this group of young South African men had permissive attitudes to suicide and viewed suicide as a morally defensible alternative in specific situations. They spoke of suicide as a goal-directed behavior that provides a means of regaining control, asserting power, communicating, and rendering oneself visible. From this perspective, suicide was understood as a brave act requiring strength and determination. These data have congruence with the Theory of Gender and Health, which proposes that constructions of masculinity may be implicated in the attitudes and beliefs young men in South Africa hold toward suicide.

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeMasculinitySocial StigmaSuicidal IdeationAdultChoice BehaviorHumansInterviews as TopicMaleQualitative ResearchSouth AfricaStudentsSuicide, AttemptedUniversitiesYoung AdultattitudesbeliefsmasculinitymenSouth Africasuicide

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PMID25631278
PMCPMC4555183

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