The Psychology Behind Men’s Reluctance to Seek Medical Help

Exploring the Psychology of Men’s Help-Seeking Behavior

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The article used in this paper is “Why Won’t He Go to the Doctor?”: The Psychology of Men’s Help Seeking.” Men generally seek less help as compared to women, this has not been comprehensively studied. According to Courtenay (2000) the reason could be linked to the fact that men position themselves as a stronger gender and in return tend to persevere distress and pain as they take it as normal as compared to women, but considering the mortality rate of men is more than women, they need more help than women. In the past, the men help-seeking rate when having medical issues was regarded as normal if the rate is less than that of women.

The reason is also evaluated in the articles as the concept of masculinity where man…