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Negotiating Masculinity: How Infertility Impacts Hegemonic Masculinity, Myscha Burton
Negotiating Masculinity: How Infertility Impacts Hegemonic Masculinity, Myscha Burton
Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts
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Body Dissatisfaction And Males: A Conceptual Model, Mitch Primus
Body Dissatisfaction And Males: A Conceptual Model, Mitch Primus
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
Within society it appears that dissatisfaction with one’s body is seen as a female-exclusive problem. However, limited research on men and body dissatisfaction suggests that men do experience body dissatisfaction, and these rates are increasing over time. The present literature review seeks to tie together consistent themes seen within these studies, and proposes a model based on these connections that may explain the growth in prevalence rates over time. Two theories, threatened masculinity theory and self-discrepancy theory, are also applied within the model. The model presented within this review can help give new direction to future research on men and …