Examine findings debunk myths about males not being open to getting help after a breakup.
The UBC Males’s Well being Analysis program’s Males Constructing Higher Relationships examine was designed to find out about supporting males who had skilled or had been experiencing relationship breakdown (i.e., divorce, separation or break up).
49 males between the ages of 26-70 participated within the examine. Greater than half of the individuals had been dad and mom, and had been in relationships starting from 5 months to twenty-eight years in size. The examine discovered:
- Many males didn’t need to or shied away from sharing their true emotions and opinions with their companions for concern of battle and/or the connection ending.
- 50% of relationship break-ups had been initiated by males’s companions.
- Males in distressed relationships, denied or monitored their feelings moderately than appearing on what they felt.
- 92% of males talked to associates and/or household after they wanted assist.
- After a break-up, most males reconnected with features of themselves that they had given up throughout their relationships.
The examine was open to males dwelling in Australia or Canada who had skilled a relationship breakdown and dealt with it on their very own, or had accessed providers (i.e., counselling, workshops, different assets) to help them via the change.
Publications
- Oliffe, J. L., Kelly, M. T., Gonzalez Montaner, G., Seidler, Z. E., Maher, B., & Rice, S. M. (2022). Males constructing higher relationships: A scoping overview. Well being Promotion Journal of Australia, 33(1), 126-137.
- Oliffe, J. L., Kelly, M. T., Montaner, G. G., Seidler, Z. E., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., & Rice, S. M. (2022). Masculinity and psychological sickness in and after males’s intimate companion relationships. SSM-Qualitative Analysis in Well being, 2, 100039
- Oliffe, J. L., Kelly, M. T., Gonzalez Montaner, G., Seidler, Z. E., Kealy, D., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., & Rice, S. M. (2022). Mapping Males’s Psychological Well being Assist-Looking for After an Intimate Associate Relationship Break-Up. Qualitative Well being Analysis, 10497323221110974.
