The Interdependence of African American Men's Definitions of Manhood and Health

Griffith, Derek M.; Brinkley‐Rubinstein, Lauren; Bruce, Marino A.; Thorpe, Roland J.; Metzl, Jonathan M.

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“…From this we gather that the worksheets and messaging within this intervention enhanced motivation and played a role in helping participants overcome barriers and finding time to engage in physical activity outside of their small group session. Because of this, and the fact that manhood among African American men is relationally constructed (Griffith, in press; Griffith et al, in press; Hammond & Mattis, 2005), it is important for interventions to incorporate messaging that reflect men's goals and values to increase motivation and not just try to encourage men to be more physically active simply for the health benefits.…”

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Lessons Learned About Motivation From a Pilot Physical Activity Intervention for African American Men

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2016

Health Promotion Practice

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African American men are less likely than white men to meet physical activity recommendations, and few physical activity interventions have focused on the unique needs of African American men. Because health is not more important to men than fulfilling the roles of a provider or other socially important roles, one of the biggest challenges in creating interventions for African American men is helping them identify reasons that they should prioritize both health and life goals. In a recent pilot physical activity intervention for 30-70 year old African American men, we used Self-determination Theory and Motivational Interviewing principles to create worksheets that helped men identify their core values and life goals and asked them to describe how their values and goals were related to health and physical activity. We used basic statistics and thematic analysis to identify and examine key sources of motivation for men to be healthier and more physically active. We found that being healthy, a good Christian, a good spouse/partner, disciplined, and successful were among men's most important life goals. This article highlights a strategy for identifying key sources of motivation in African American men's lives and key themes that can be used in to enhance future interventions.

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Lessons Learned About Motivation From a Pilot Physical Activity Intervention for African American Men

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2016

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“…Definitions and practices of manhood vary by time, location and person, but notions of manhood and social determinants of men's health have not adequately considered men's social status, economic position, or relations among men as determinants of health. 27,60 Being an adult male triggers a variety of social expectations, relations and practices that highlight how identities and health are shaped by gendered environmental and experiential factors. 24,27,61 Intersectionality is a useful tool to examine manhood in minority men's health as it provides a way to explore how socially defined and socially meaningful characteristics derive meaning from one another, and cannot be fully appreciated as factors that operate independently or additively.…”

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“I AM a Man”: Manhood, Minority Men’s Health and Health Equity

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2015

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Objective: To consider how manhood is a key social determinant of minority men’s health.Design: This commentary explicates how manhood intersects with other determinants of health to shape minority men’s stress responses, health behaviors and health outcomes across the life course.Results: Manhood, which perpetually needs to be proven, is an aspirational identity that is defined by the intersection of age, race/ethnicity and other identities. Minority men seek to and successfully embody US-cultural and ethnic-specific aspects of manhood in their daily lives by engaging in behaviors that constantly reaffirm their gender identity through a complex internal and social calculus that varies by intra-personal characteristics and context. Manhood and health are relational constructs that highlight how the salience of masculinities are shaped by perceived and actual social norms and expectations. A life course perspective adds a framework for considering how some gendered beliefs, goals and behaviors change over time while others remain static. Three life course frameworks highlight different mechanisms through which minority men’s life experiences and physiological and behavioral responses to gendered social norms, beliefs and expectations become embodied as premature mortality and other health outcomes over the life course.Conclusion: Manhood represents an important lens to understand how minority men’s identities, goals and priorities affect their health, yet the role of manhood in minority men’s health is understudied and underdeveloped. To achieve health equity, it is critical to consider how manhood shapes minority men’s lives and health across the life course, and to address how manhood affects gendered and non-gendered mechanisms and pathways that explain minority men’s health over time. Ethn Dis. 2015;25(3):287-293.

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“…Similar to prior research, we found that our participants conveyed that they understood the sociocultural characteristics that are presumed to be associated with being an adult, La-Precision Lifestyle Medicine Intervention -Griffith et al tino male but they saw the notion of machismo too restrictive. 13,15,25 Rather, they sought to embody and portray characteristics and attributes that were more consistent with the notion of Caballerismo -an aspect of masculinity that focuses on social responsibility, emotional connectedness, and respectability 25 -and familism or a rooting of their life goals and aspirations not in their individual success but that of their family 6,11,26 . The efforts these men described to embody values and goals that are consistent with ideals of Caballerismo and familism, and the prioritizing of their family's needs and goals are laudable, but it also maps onto key barriers to healthy eating and physical activity that have been associated with provider role strain in middleaged and older African American men.…”

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“…10 Research on Latino men's health may be limited because it has ignored social and contextual factors that uniquely affect Latino men. 6,11 Precision Lifestyle Medicine Intervention - Griffith et al While structural models of masculinities 12 are essential to understanding how gender operates and how men "perform" gender in relation to health, 13 there is a need for microlevel detail to complement these macro-structural relations 14,15 if the goal is to develop interventions that are congruent with the individual identities, needs, beliefs and values of specific groups of men. Consistent with the recommendations of the NIH Science of Behavior Change Program, Self-Determination Theory 16 provides mechanistic foundations on which to build person-specific interventions.…”

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Developing a “Tailor-Made” Precision Lifestyle Medicine Intervention for Weight Control among Middle-aged Latino Men

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Objective: To identify what is important to middle-aged Latino men and their personal goals and values as foundations for a future precision lifestyle medicine intervention that is rooted in Self-Determination Theory.Design: We used a phenomenological, thematic approach to analyze data from 20 semi-structured, individual interviews with Latino men aged 35-60 years.Setting: Community-based settings between November 2017 and May 2018 in South Florida.Participants: Latino or Hispanic men who were aged 35-60 years. The mean age of the men was 49.8 years.Results: Two key themes emerged: a) the characteristics that these men say define what it means to be a man; and b) the characteristics that these men say define what is important to them. “What defines a man” includes three primary subthemes: a) the attributes, characteristics and behaviors that participants understood to be ideals that a man should embody and the roles he should fulfill; b) lessons learned growing up about what it means to be a man; and c) how Latino men relate to the ideal of machismo. “What defines me” includes the subthemes: a) comparing themselves with the ideal of machismo; b) caring for family and others; and c) supporting and modeling positive behavior for their children.Conclusions: We found key candidate mechanisms that may be novel yet critical foundations on which to build a precision lifestyle medicine intervention for Latino men. We identified actionable psychosocial factors that map onto motivational constructs that can shape behaviors that are essential for weight control and be a useful foundation for improving the health of middle-aged Latino men. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(Suppl 1):203-210; doi:10.18865/ed.30.S1.203

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The Interdependence of African American Men's Definitions of Manhood and Health

Cited by 43 publications

References 60 publications

Lessons Learned About Motivation From a Pilot Physical Activity Intervention for African American Men

Lessons Learned About Motivation From a Pilot Physical Activity Intervention for African American Men

“I AM a Man”: Manhood, Minority Men’s Health and Health Equity

Developing a “Tailor-Made” Precision Lifestyle Medicine Intervention for Weight Control among Middle-aged Latino Men

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