Men, bodily control, and health behaviors: The importance of age.

Calasanti, Toni; Pietilä, Ilkka; Ojala, Hanna; King, Neal

doi:10.1037/a0029300

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“…These criteria were selected to maximize both potential public health gain and participant motivation to lose weight. Overweight and obese men in their mid to late 30s may experience an attitudinal shift in relation to their health and physical limitations [31], increasing their receptiveness to advice on changing health behaviours; and men who are obese (or at high risk of becoming obese) are more likely to want to lose weight than those who just exceed the normal weight range [32,33]. The upper age limit reflects differences in current physical activity guidelines for over-65s [34].…”

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Weight management for overweight and obese men delivered through professional football clubs: a pilot randomized trial

Gray

Hunt

Mutrie

et al. 2013

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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BackgroundThe prevalence of male obesity is increasing, but men are less likely than women to attend existing weight management programmes. We have taken a novel approach to reducing perceived barriers to weight loss for men by using professional football (soccer) clubs to encourage participation in a weight management group programme, gender-sensitised in content and style of delivery. Football Fans in Training (FFIT) provides 12 weeks of weight loss, physical activity and healthy eating advice at top professional football clubs in Scotland. This pilot randomized trial explored the feasibility of using these clubs as a setting for a randomized controlled trial of 12 month weight loss following men’s participation in FFIT.MethodsA two-arm pilot trial at two Scottish Premier League football clubs (one large, one smaller), with 103 men (aged 35–65, body mass index (BMI) ≥27 kg/m2) individually randomized to the intervention (n=51, received the pilot programme (p-FFIT) immediately) and waitlist comparison (n=52, received p-FFIT after four months) groups. Feasibility of recruitment, randomization, data collection and retention were assessed. Objective physical measurements (weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, body composition) and questionnaires (self-reported physical activity, diet, alcohol consumption, psychological outcomes) were obtained from both groups by fieldworkers trained to standard protocols at baseline and 12 weeks, and from the intervention group at 6 and 12 months. Qualitative methods elicited men’s experiences of participation in the pilot trial.ResultsFollowing a short recruitment period, the recruitment target was achieved at the large, but not smaller, club. Participants’ mean age was 47.1±8.4 years; mean BMI 34.5±5.0 kg/m2. Retention through the trial was good (>80% at 12 weeks and 6 months; >75% at 12 months), and 76% attended at least 80% of available programme delivery sessions. At 12 weeks, the intervention group lost significantly more weight than the comparison group (4.6% c.f. -0.6%, p<.001) and many maintained this to 12 months (intervention group baseline-12 month weight loss: 3.5%, p<.001). There were also improvements in self-reported physical activity and diet, many sustained long term.ConclusionsThe results demonstrated the feasibility of trial procedures and the potential of FFIT to engage men in sustained weight loss and positive lifestyle change. They supported the conduct of a fully-powered randomized controlled trial.

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Weight management for overweight and obese men delivered through professional football clubs: a pilot randomized trial

Gray

Hunt

Mutrie

et al. 2013

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

128

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“…There seems to be a differing focus at older ages, from a focus on functionality in sport and physical activity among the younger men to functionality in everyday-life among the older. Findings from earlier research indicate a strong link between masculinity and the functionality of the body (Jackson and Lyons, 2012; Calasanti et al, 2013). Hence a reduction in the functionality of the body, such as functionality in sport and physical activity or in everyday life, would inevitably be a challenge to masculinity.…”

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“…A study from Finland and the USA shows that how a body functions is what matters for men, and, moreover, that they relate the body's functionality to health. Any other focus on the body, such as attractiveness, struck the men as feminine and should therefore be avoided (Calasanti et al, 2013). All of the adult men in a study in England focused mainly on the functionality of the body, but a minority of the men focused on the appearance of the body as well (Halliwell and Dittmar, 2003).…”

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“…The body is an obvious signifier of social class, gender, race and age (Edwards, 2006), but most research on masculinity and men's health has ignored age relations and the impact age has on the way men do gender (Calasanti et al, 2013), and most studies on aging have either ignored gender or focused on women's aging (Hearn, 1995;Calasanti, 2004;Pietilä and Ojala, 2011). To the best of our knowledge, most research on men's bodies has similarly ignored the intersection of age and masculinities.…”

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‘It is passable, I suppose’ – Adult Norwegian men’s notions of their own bodies

Hervik¹,

Fasting

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.sage.com: http://dx.doi. org/10.1177/1012690214557709 This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how men aged 40-90 years with different educational and ethnic backgrounds talk about their own bodies, and how social dimensions, especially masculinity and age, are reflected in their talk. Eighteen men from a small rural town in Norway were interviewed. The findings indicate that the men have a complex relationship to their own bodies. Three main themes were found in the way they talked about their own bodies; functionality in relation to their everyday life and in relation to sport and physical activity; physical and mental health; appearance both in relation to how their bodies were perceived by others and in relation to their own perception of their body.The three themes were not mutually exclusive and were often interwoven in terms of how they were talked about. The results are discussed in relation to theories of masculinity with a focus on Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity. One of the conclusions that can be drawn from the project is that the men expressed their relationships with their bodies in conflicting and complex ways, including concerns which can be interpreted as gendered and age-related. 'It is passable, I suppose' -Adult Norwegian men's notions of their own bodiesMen's bodies is an under researched area in sociology (Robertson, 2006a;Edwards, 2006), and scholars have largely ignored the ageing bodies (Slevin, 2010). Studies that have theorized older men and masculinity are also rare (Calasanti and King, 2005;Calasanti, 2004), and most research on bodies has been carried out on women (Tager et al., 2006) or adolescents and young adults of both sexes (Drummond, 2012;Clarke and Korotchenko, 2011). Loland (1999: 300) called for more sensitivity of 'the issues of complexity and specificity' when studying men, men's bodies and masculinity, and Calasanti and King (2005) stressed the importance of more knowledge on the complexity of age and masculinity. This paper therefore aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity in middle-aged and elderly men's notions of their own bodies. Accordingly, this paper focuses on how middle-aged and elderly men talk about their bodies in relation to ageing and masculinities.Existing theory and research seem to establish that men who embody traditional masculinity are supposedly unconcerned with their appearance, and would rather desire a well-functioning body for sports, work and everyday life (Jackson and Lyons, 2012). A study from Finland and the USA shows that how a body functions is what matters for men, and, moreover, that they relate the body's functionality to health. Any other focus on the body, such as attractiveness, struck the men as femini...

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“…Men's health behaviour is studied fairly rarely and is mostly formed by quantitative research design dealing with masculinity and sexuality topics [3,4]. In order to conduct a better examination of men's health behaviour experience and the most common reasons of not caring for their health, it is important to use a qualitative study approach.…”

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Health procrastination: The experience of 35-44 years old men

Silkāne

Austers

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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Abstract. The focal concept of this study is health procrastination. Delay in seeking help from medical practitioners is an increasing problem in Latvia, particularly with men between the ages of 35-44. Failures in primary and secondary prevention create a number of negative consequences, for instance, longer and more complex treatment; lower recovery prognosis as well as higher treatment costs. Nevertheless, the aforementioned group often avoids medical treatment. The aim of this study was to understand the experience of 35-44 years old men in terms of their health procrastination in qualitative terms. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with 48 men within the age range of 35-44 years were conducted. Data was analysed using inductive thematic analysis. The following dominant themes are: delay of health behaviour, time management, motivation emerged during the analysis: conscientiousness, task avoidance, effort, short-term vs. long-term thinking, gains and losses assessment, and time discounting. Conclusions followed: there are three main concepts -personality traits, discounting and task characteristicsthat bring together the experience of health procrastination for 35-44 years old males.

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Men, bodily control, and health behaviors: The importance of age.

Cited by 46 publications

References 25 publications

Weight management for overweight and obese men delivered through professional football clubs: a pilot randomized trial

Weight management for overweight and obese men delivered through professional football clubs: a pilot randomized trial

‘It is passable, I suppose’ – Adult Norwegian men’s notions of their own bodies

Health procrastination: The experience of 35-44 years old men

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