In recent years increasing attention has been given to how different masculinities are expressed in young men's health behaviour. To examine whether men can use competence in key health-related masculine domains to compensate for other non-masculine behaviour, group discussions were conducted with men aged 18g-21 living in London, England. The analysis revealed the ways in which competence in traditionally masculine health-related domains produces masculine 'capital', which can be used to compensate for non-masculine behaviour in other domains. However, the capacity to trade this capital is limited because different masculine and non-masculine behaviours have different values. © 2009 SAGE.
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De Visser, R. O., Smith, J. A., & McDonnell, E. J. (2009). “That’s not masculine”: Masculine capital and health-related behaviour. Journal of Health Psychology, 14(7), 1047–1058. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105309342299
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