Document Tag: gender

Help seeking and African American college-aged men: An integrated literature review through somebodiness. (2024)

African American male college students (AAMCS) underutilize counseling services in the face of rising mental health needs. This article is aimed at situating the help-seeking experiences of AAMCS from the theory of somebodiness, recognizing the agency and meaningfulness with which AAMCS author their own lives in the face of dehumanization. The methodology for this article was a narrative literature review, which consisted of reviewing empirical and conceptual peer-reviewed journal articles using a combination of the keywords African American, Black, male college students, help seeking, and counseling. This review was designed to consider the contextual factors that affect AAMCS decisions to seek counseling. Those factors were shared racial identity, access to mental health information, relational norms, spirituality, mental health stigma, and gender socialization. This article concludes with future research and implications for counseling practices to encourage mental health service use among AAMCS populations.

Revisiting Health Disparities Linked to “Some College”: Incorporating Gender and High School Experiences (2023)

In the United States, “some college” is attained more frequently than a 4-year college degree. However, attainments below 4-year college vary considerably in terms of credentials and years of higher education, and gender differences in health disparities remain overlooked. Additionally, high school experiences may confound any estimated health gains. We draw on national longitudinal data (Add Health; Waves IV and V) to estimate associations between subbaccalaureate education and general health during young adulthood and again at early midlife. Relative to attaining no education past high school, women’s greater self-rated health with all levels of postsecondary attainment is robust to high school experiences, with the exception of vocational/technical training without a degree, in young adulthood and in early midlife. Greater health gains are linked to associate degrees compared to some college without a degree. For men, health benefits are found only among 4-year degree holders. For both genders, depressive symptom buffering linked to subbaccalaureate education is inconsistent and sometimes not robust to high school experiences. Overall, these findings offer a compelling case for recasting college health gains in terms of distinct postsecondary endpoints by gender.

Care(ful) Relationships Between Mothers and the Caregivers they Hire (2024)

Care(ful) Relationships between Mothers and the Caregivers They Hire offers an interdisciplinary and international approach to the complex issues of carework, primarily focusing on childcare. The diverse collection of authors center their examinations of care by interrogating how class, race, and gender interplay to create inequity and potential. The work shared in Care(ful) Relationships draws from various disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, media studies, literary and dramatic analysis, history, and women’ s studies while also addressing carework as it is depicted in ages past and contemporary culture. The collection not only seeks to challenge misconceptions and inequity but also examine how the unique personal relationships that form in the labor of care can yield prosocial change.