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`Blokes Don't Like That Sort of Thing'

Men's Negotiation of a `Troubled' Self-help Group Identity

Sarah Seymour-Smith

Nottingham Trent University, sarah.seymour-smith{at}ntu.ac.uk

Research has demonstrated that gender is a barrier to men's participation in self-help groups. In this article I analyse how four men and seven women negotiate their identities as members of cancer self-help groups. Their accounts were transcribed and analysed using a synthetic approach to discursive psychology. Women's accounts were organized around the notion of receiving help whereas men appeared to resist this type of identity. I explore how men attended to the presentation of a masculine identity and focus on how men negotiated `legitimately masculine' reasons to be engaged in self-help groups.

Key Words: discursive psychology • masculinity • self-help group

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 6, 785-797 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105308093862
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