Approaching the Effects of Gender-based Socialization on the Emotional Expression: An Exploratory Study

Sánchez-Prada, Andrés; Álvarez, Carmen Delgado

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.12.038

“…Much of the existing research into CEA and mental health is psychological and focuses on the individual vulnerabilities of abused individuals, taking a gender-neutral approach with little attention to the social contexts within which abuse takes place. While there is a sizable body of theory and research into the gendered aspects of emotional socialization (e.g., Seidler, 1989; Sanchez-Prada & Delgado-Alvarez, 2014), there has been little engagement with these ideas by researchers focusing on CEA. There is also a body of research that considers masculinities and men’s experiences of child sexual abuse (e.g., O’Leary & Gould, 2010; Kia-Keating, Grossman, Sorsoli, & Epstein, 2005), but there has been little specific examination of men’s experiences of CEA and how gender discourses and power relations might also frame experiences of this form of abuse.…”

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Childhood emotional abuse (CEA) is the most common and psychologically harmful form of child abuse. While there has been attention to how gender discourses and power relations frame other forms of interpersonal violence and abuse, there has been no research into the gendered dimensions of CEA. This article reports on the findings from a qualitative interview study with men who have these backgrounds. The study was framed by a poststructural feminist understanding of gender, discourse, and power and R. W. Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity and social practices of gender. Narrative-discursive analysis revealed a powerful discourse about "becoming a better man" in spite of abuse through practices of hegemonic masculinity, particularly the control of emotion and prevailing over abusers. The article considers the positive and negative implications for abused men's subjectivities as well as those for women and wider gender power relations. The article also considers gender-aware approaches for social workers and other professionals working with individuals who have these backgrounds. Keywords childhood emotional abuse, mental health, qualitative analysis Childhood emotional abuse (CEA) is the least well-known but most common and psychologically harmful form of interpersonal abuse. While research into the negative impact on mental health of childhood sexual and physical abuse is well-established, CEA has only gained attention more recently. There is now growing evidence that it, too, has a serious negative impact on mental health for many individuals, perhaps even more so than other forms of abuse (

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