MENTAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES AMONG MEN WITH DISABILITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH

Abstract

Disability is a key social identity or social category that is associated with significant social disadvantage. For men, having a disability can be discordant with their masculine identity. Self-reliance is one component of masculinity that is known to be important to men with disabilities, however it is also known to be associated with adverse mental health outcomes in the broader adult male population. Intersectionality approaches offer a means of examining the way that the effect of self-reliance on mental health might vary between those with and without a disability. We drew on a sample of 12,052 men aged 18–55 years from the Ten-to-Men study, a longitudinal cohort study of Australian me..