Gender identity shapes preferences for health and environmental behaviors
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Relative to women, men are less likely to engage in many health-promoting and pro-environmental behaviors. In this dissertation, I argue that men avoid healthy and sustainable practices in order to demonstrate their masculinity and distance themselves from feminine-typed domains. Across three papers I draw on survey and experimental methods to examine the role of masculinity maintenance and gender attitudes on health and environmental preferences. Chapter 1 provides causal evidence that men's gender identity maintenance efforts negatively affect health-related preferences through two pathways: first, unhealthy choices that express masculinity, and secondly, elevated blood pressure in response to gender identity threats. In chapter 2, I show that men's lower levels of environmental concern can be explained by differences in gender beliefs and perceptions about the masculinity and femininity of pro-environmental views. Finally, in chapter 3 I test a potential intervention strategy intended to increase men's rates of sustainable practices by drawing on masculine-typed frames that fit more closely with widely held definitions of masculinity. Overall, this research shows how men's gender identity maintenance can shape preferences for health and environmental behaviors.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Nakagawa, Sandra Kai |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Cook, Karen |
| Primary advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia L |
| Thesis advisor | Cook, Karen |
| Thesis advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia L |
| Thesis advisor | Willer, Robert Bartley |
| Advisor | Willer, Robert Bartley |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sandra Kai Nakagawa. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Sandra Kai Nakagawa
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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