Update on Masculinity and Health Research Team - University of Memphis

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Hello administrator,

In August 2010, I contacted you about posting the link to a survey that was

being undertaken by the Masculinity and Health Research Team at the University

of Memphis. Some of your members expressed concern that our research team was

not legitimate or had hidden intentions. I thought it might be helpful to send

you the outcome of that research, which was presented as a poster at the annual

convention of the American Psychological Association in August 2011 in

Washington, D.C. The poster was received well by experts in research on men and

masculinity, and we are now preparing the manuscript for formal publication in a

scholarly journal, so that more health professionals and laypersons can benefit

from the information we were able to obtain from research participants such as

your members who viewed the survey. Below, I have copied the abstract/brief

summary of that research, and would be glad to provide you with a powerpoint of

the entire presentation should any of your members be interested. We greatly

appreciate your participation in the study.

This year, the team is turning its focus to investigating masculinity as it

affects intimate relationships and work relationships. This survey is much

shorter, approximately 27 minutes, and COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS. As a token of

appreciation for participants' time, I am personally donating $1 for each man

who completes the survey to his choice of a veterans' or at-risk youth charity.

The link for the current survey is:

http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/634273/mens-relationships-survey

Again, thank you for your participation, and if you have questions about the

survey or would like me to send the full poster, email me at

alida.gage@....

Sincerely,

Alida Gage, M.A.

Doctoral Candidate, Counseling Psychology

Testing the health promotion model for American men: Increasing health

responsibility, physical activity, and stress management

Suzanne H. Lease, Ph.D., Alida N. Gage, M.A., M. Jehu, M.S., R.

Sawyer, M.S., & Rustom, B.A.

The University of Memphis

Abstract

The current project tested a causal health promotion model (HPM; Pender,

1996)predicting behaviors of health responsibility (e.g., annual physical

examinations, health change monitoring), physical activity, and stress

management in American men. The HPM is supported with the addition of past

behaviors and masculinity as exogenous variables. Perceived self-efficacy is a

consistent predictor of the study behaviors. Outcome expectations were related

to some of the behaviors, but not others. Study results provide data that will

guide future intervention efforts to promote healthy behaviors in men.