RT Journal Article
T1 Intersectional analysis of men’s masculinities and mental health-seeking behavior: a novel application of multiple correspondence analysis
A1 Nystrom, Daniel Alfred
A1 Del Campo Campos, Cristina
A1 Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés
AB To better understand the drivers of mental health-seeking behavior, the individual's beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and sociocultural identities must be considered. Such an analysis, however, is complicated by the nature of data sets detailing these factors. Features such as marital status, educational attainment, and employment status, for example, represent unordered categorical variables and require special consideration when selecting an analytical tool. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is an underused statistical technique that allows one to achieve such a goal. In this paper, we use a public-domain dataset to demonstrate how MCA can be used to analyze the relationships between men’s beliefs and behaviors about masculinity, their mental health-seeking behaviors (approximated by the indicator “how often would you say you see a therapist?”), and their intersectional identities. Diverse masculinity ideology profiles of respondents are identified revealing a significant degree of intersectional disparities between groups of men where sexual orientation, age or being married appear to be highly determinant variables in some of the obtained profiles. These profiles of respondents, and their relationships to the studied variable, might serve as the basis for better-informed public health communications.
SN 1524-9220
YR 2024
FD 2024-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104361
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104361
LA eng
NO Nystrom, D. A., del Campo, C., & Fernández-Cornejo, J. A. (2024). Intersectional analysis of men’s masculinities and mental health-seeking behavior: A novel application of multiple correspondence analysis. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 25(1), 57–70.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 4 abr 2025