PROBLEM STATEMENT: Globally, 70% of more than three million new curable sexually transmitted infections (STI) are among 15-24 year olds, with young people in developing countries bearing the highest burden. Chlamydia Trachomatis prevalence, for example, is 15.4% and 20.5% in young women and men attending STD clinics in the U.S. However, Caribbean STI data for young men are particularly scarce and inconsistent and cases are under-reported due to poor health seeking behavior. In Guyana, 42% of the STI cases from 2010 -2014 occurred in young people, aged 15- 24. Moreover, few programs and policies focus specifically on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young men. This dissertation explores the contextual and behavioral factors that cause young men’s vulnerability to STI and proposes recommendations for the national response in Guyana. METHODS: Research methods included: 9 focus group discussions (FGDs) with young men, aged 15-18, mothers and fathers and 25 in-depth interviews with representatives from government, community, faith-based and donor organizations. Interviews and FGDs were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed for major themes among and across each stakeholder group. Analysis was guided by a socio-ecologic framework and resulted in program and policy recommendations to address vulnerability to STI and augment protective factors against STI in young men in Guyana. RESULTS: Salient overarching themes include: Poverty and Disenfranchisement “Yes, this is a Man”: Early Sex, Fast Money, and Risk”, “The Empty Room: Young Men without Male Roles Models”, “Sex in a violent society”, “Stigma, Discrimination, and Shame: Road blocks to young men’s sexual health” and Young men’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Young men’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: It all depends on family, religion, education, music and media (or not). Participants highlighted a lack of SRH awareness and health care seeking resulting from insufficient male SRH promotion and services. Parental engagement, school attendance, supportive peers, religious commitment and internet use for SRH information were described as protective factors. CONTRIBUTION: A socio-ecological model helped to comprehensively identify and organize broad social determinants of SRH and high risk sexual behaviors for young men. The resulting program and policy recommendations are proposed for implementation in Georgetown, Guyana. / 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z

The subject matter of the study is personality traits of students. The object matter of the study is the relationship between aggressiveness and subjective feelings of loneliness among students. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, conclusions, a list of references (103 sources) and an annex including the blank forms of the applied methods. The volume of the master`s thesis is 123 pages, which include 5 figures and 22 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the chosen research problem, the level of development of the problematics; the objective and the tasks of the study are set, the subject matter and the scope of the research are determined, the basic and additional hypotheses are formulated, the methods and the empirical base are defined, as well as the stages of the research, its scientific novelty, theoretical and practical significance of the work. The first chapter includes a review of foreign and domestic literature on the research topic, a description of the structure of loneliness, aggressiveness, aggression. The sections devoted to the relationship between loneliness and aggressiveness based on the materials of modern foreign studies. Conclusions on the first chapter are the results of the study of theoretical material. The second chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. It includes a description of the organization and methods of the study, as well as the results obtained due to the applied methods: differential questionnaire of the experience of loneliness. Aspen, D.A. Leontief), the scale of the subjective experience of loneliness S.V. Dukhnovsky, a questionnaire measuring the aggressive and hostile reactions of A. Bass and A. Darki, the hostility scale of V.V. Cook and D.M. Medley. Also, the chapter presents a comparative and correlation analysis of the results of the study. The findings of Chapter 2 are the main results of the empirical study. In the conclusion, brief results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work are presented, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses. The practical significance of the study is substantiated and possible prospects for further development of the problematics are described. / Объектом исследования стали личностные черты студентов. Предметом исследования стала взаимосвязь агрессивности и субъективного ощущения одиночества у студентов. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка литературы (103 источника) и приложения, включающего в себя бланки применявшихся методик. Объем магистерской диссертации 123 страницы, на которых размещены 5 рисунков и 22 таблицы. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются основная и дополнительные гипотезы, указываются методы и эмпирическая база, а также этапы проведения исследования, научная новизна, теоретическая и практическая значимость работы. Первая глава включает в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме исследования, теоретический анализ понятий одиночества, агрессивности, агрессии. Представлены разделы, посвященные взаимосвязи одиночества и агрессивности по материалам современных зарубежных исследований. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая глава посвящена эмпирической части исследования. В ней представлено описание организации и методов проведенного исследования и результатов, полученных по всем использованным методикам: дифференциальный опросник переживания одиночества ДОПО-3 Е.Н. Осина, Д.А. Леонтьева, шкала субъективного переживания одиночества С.В. Духновского, опросник измерения агрессивных и враждебный реакций А. Басса и А. Дарки, шкала враждебности В.В. Кука и Д.М. Медлей. Также в главе представлены сравнительный и корреляционный анализ результатов исследования. Выводы по главе 2 включают в себя основные результаты эмпирического исследования. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам, обоснована практическая значимость исследования и описаны возможные перспективы дальнейшей разработки данной проблематики.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka hur pojkars roll i utövandet av hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck förstås, och hur uppmärksammas och motsvaras behoven av stöd eller andra insatser av polis, skola och socialtjänst. Kandidatuppsatsens har en kvalitativ metod och är analyserad med utgångspunkt i hermeneutiken. Vår metod för datainsamling är semistrukturerade intervjuer med tre olika myndighetsrepresentanter från polis, socialtjänst och skola som möter barn i sitt arbete. Intervjuerna analyserades med hjälp av tematisk analysmetod och våra valda teorier. De teorier vi utgått från är patriarkala familjestrukturen, kollektivism och individualism samt könsmaktsperspektivet. Vårt resultat visar att det finns bristande resurser för pojkar som lever under inflytandet av hedersnormer. Hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck anspelar på kvinnans oskuld och beteende. Pojkar hamnar i en mellanposition och har som uppgift att kontrollera sina kvinnliga släktingar så de inte beter sig eller agerar olämpligt. Vårt resultat och tidigare forskning uppmärksammar att pojkar är både förtryckare och förtryckta. Samtidigt visar vårt resultat att skola, socialtjänst och polis betraktar pojkarna i större utsträckning som förövare än offer.

yes / Literature on truck pushers stereotype these boys as social misfits, criminals and nuisance to society; often regarded as creating streetism. Much consideration has not been given to their contribution to the economy as well as what motivates these boys to go into truck pushing. This chapter outlines research with 30 (20 current and 10 former) truck pushers, 5 customers who patronised the services of the truck pushers were interviewed for their views on the services of the truck pushers. Finally, 5 kayayei (female head porters) at the market were interviewed to find out if the presence of kayayei in the market has affected the business of the truck pushers. The study found that the services provided by truck pushers especially to petty traders and other shoppers were indispensable because they provide cheap, readily available and customised service. Due to poor urban planning and deplorable road networks in Ghana, many areas are not accessible by motorised transport, hand pushed trucks have become the most useful and efficient means of transporting goods from the markets to bus terminals and on some occasions to customers’ homes and shops. The chapter argues that non-motorised transport to the informal sector cannot be overemphasised; therefore truck pushers should be seen as bridging a gap in urban transportation, instead of the social misfit label attached to them.

Food and beverage intake was recorded for five days by 170 males having a mean age of 26 ± 8.1 years and living in·a university community. Differences in nutrient intake and in eating patterns between the subjects were examined in relation to the percentage of kilocalories fat intake contributed to their diet. Division of the subjects into a low, medium, or high ''fat-intake group" was established with 34 subjects consuming ≤33.5 percent fat, 98 subjects consuming >33.5 and ≤42 percent fat, and 38 subjects consuming >42 percent fat of kilocalories. Cluster and factor analyses indicated that the men were not characterized by any one typical pattern of eating. The use of discriminant analysis identified trends in consumption of certain foods consistent with the results from a previous analysis. Between the three groups of subjects there were negligible differences in nutrient intake, except for fat and carbohydrate. Both analyses indicated that the subjects with a high level of dietary fat consumed more of foods rich in fat and slightly more protein, and that the subjects with a diet lower in fat consumed more carbohydrates and alcohol. These results indicate that the majority of the young men would need to make some modifications on types of frequently consumed foods but would not require drastic changes in their diets to reduce their level of fat intake. This data also indicated that intake of other nutrients is not greatly affected by level of fat intake. / M.S.

This research project is based on the key assumption that in order to slow the rate of HIV infections amongst young men (and women) it iscrucial to direct interventions towards changing the constructions of masculinity which put adolescents at risk of HIV infection. As such, this study investigates the constructions of masculinity and masculine identity positions that are evident within the narratives of a small group of young black, white and coloured male university students. The research participants were engaged in a limited number of individual, semi-structured interviews. This report draws attention to the fmdings that have arisen from an analysis of the initial two interviews, the first of which revolved around photographs taken by the participants in order to illustrate what it means to be a young man in contemporary South Africa. An important finding is that there are numerous commonalities as well as differences in the constructions of masculinity that exist amongst these young men. A sense of uncertainty and ambivalence regarding the nature of masculinity is also common. Situated with an emphasised masculinity, various risk-taking behaviours, such as the consumption of alcohol in large quantities, visible affluence, a compulsory heterosexuality, and strength, in diverse forms, are identified as common constructions of masculinity. All of these young men define their sense of masculinity through the adoption of subject positions in relation to and in opposition to young women and other young men. The male peer group is a particularly significant site for masculine identity construction. A further key finding is that a number of these young men are able to reject one or more hegemonic norms of masculinity, yet are apparently able to maintain a sense of masculine acceptability. This finding has direct implications for the design of future research as well as of interventions around HIV/AIDS. As such, this thesis draws attention to the range of strategies utilised by these young men to maintain an adequate sense of masculinity in the face of non-conformance to particular hegemonic norms. Although these young men identify predominantly with the dominant, hegemonic norms of masculinity, there are multiple, often contradictory, subject positions that they occupy in relation to these norms and standards. As a result, this study raises questions for those involvedin similar research as well as for those designing interventions in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att studera hur organisationer, som jobbar med pojkar och unga män som drabbats av hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck, beskriver deras problematik. I studien har semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomförts och del-innehållsanalys har använts. Våra teoretiska utgångspunkter har varit maskulinitetsteorin, det ideala offret samt det kulturbetingade perspektivet. Resultatet av studien visade att pojkar och unga män som drabbas av hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck ofta också är förövare i samma kontext, att det våld och förtryck de utsätts för är snarlikt det som drabbar flickor och unga kvinnor och att en utlösande faktor för att drabbas är att bryta mot familjens normer. De slutsatser vi dragit utifrån vår studie är att våra resultat ligger i linje med tidigare forskning samt att leva upp till mansnormen är centralt och betydande för att inte bli utsatt för hedersvåld. / The purpose of this study was to explore how organizations, who are assigned to meet boys and young men who are victims of honour related violence and oppression, describe their situation. The study was conducted through semi-structured interviews and form-content analysis has been used. Our theoretical framework consists of masculinity theory, the ideal victim as well as the culture-related perspective. The results of the study showed that boys and young men who are victims of honour-related violence is also often perpetrators in the same context. The violence and oppression they face is like the one suffered by young girls and women and that a triggering factor for suffering is to violate family norms. The conclusions we have drawn is that our results are in line with previous research. It´s also both central and major that boys and young men live up to the concept of masculinity, to avoid becoming a victim of honour-related violence.

A juventude assume características próprias conforme o contexto sociocultural e histórico. No Brasil, jovens pertencentes às camadas populares, em geral, ingressam no mercado de trabalho antes de atingir a maioridade legal, e passam a gozar de certa autonomia em relação à família. Durante a juventude as experiências vividas e os modos de conduta juvenis podem entrar em confronto com aqueles preconizados pelos pais. O grupo de pares contribui para a constituição da identidade pessoal e social dos jovens, além de ser importante agente na constituição de sua subjetividade. Esta pesquisa objetivou investigar como jovens do sexo masculino constituem suas identidades, subjetividade e masculinidade a partir das relações de sociabilidade vividas na família e no grupo de pares. Para isso, foram descritas e analisadas normas, códigos de conduta, representações de gênero e formas de sociabilidade que vigoram em cada uma dessas esferas. Foram realizadas nove entrevistas semiestruturadas, gravadas e transcritas, com jovens do sexo masculino, na faixa etária entre 17 e 23 anos, solteiros e inseridos no mercado de trabalho, pertencentes a famílias das camadas populares de Ribeirão Preto-SP. Além das entrevistas, realizou-se observação das formas de sociabilidade entre jovens em uma praça localizada na região central da cidade, e também foram realizadas observações em um bairro da periferia da cidade em que alguns entrevistados residiam. Os dados foram analisados qualitativamente, de acordo com a temática e fundamentados em referenciais teóricos da Antropologia, Sociologia e Psicologia. Ainda que pertençam a arranjos familiares distintos, os participantes apontam a mãe como figura afetiva e mais próxima deles, sendo o pai ou padrasto relativamente distante. Quanto à sociabilidade grupal, a maior parte dos participantes afirmou ter bastante afinidade com seus pares do mesmo sexo, com quem dividem questões pessoais, pois essas relações fundam-se na confiança mútua e na reciprocidade. O contato com os pares constitui um modo de amenizar as tensões entre orientações parentais e disposições juvenis, compartilhando com eles vivências comuns e modificando suas identidades, que se reconstroem ao longo de sua trajetória individual, social e geracional. A construção da masculinidade parece estar relacionada à honra, à virilidade. Apesar de manifestações tradicionais a respeito das relações de gênero, a maioria dos entrevistados também expressou vias alternativas a esse modelo. Desse modo, expressam certas mudanças em suas representações acerca das relações de gênero quando as comparam com as posturas paternas e ainda que essas inovações sejam relativamente reduzidas, convivendo ambiguamente com modelos tradicionais, julgam-se diferentes dos homens da geração anterior quanto a algumas dimensões definidoras da masculinidade e da convivência com mulheres. Com referência à trajetória dos participantes, em particular sua inserção precoce no mercado de trabalho e a convivência cotidiana com jovens que praticam atos ilícitos no bairro em que vivem, os entrevistados apoiam-se na família como referência para seus códigos morais, a fim de que sejam \"honestos\", opondo-se àqueles que se envolvem em atividades ilícitas, com quem convivem de modo cordial no bairro, ou até mesmo com quem podem ter alguma proximidade. (FAPESP) / The youth has different characteristics according to the sociocultural and historical context. In Brazil, generally young people from low income families enter the labor market before having reached legal majority, and start to enjoy some autonomy from their family. Throughout the youth, the experiences and modes of conduct may conflict with the standards established by their parents. The peer group contributes to the personal and social identity formation of young people; besides, it is an important agent for the constitution of their subjectivity. This study aimed to investigate how young men build their identity, subjectivity and masculinity based on their social relations with their family and peer group. In order to achieve this, there were described and analyzed standards, codes of conduct, gender representations and forms of sociability that prevail in each of these spheres. Nine semi-structured interviews with young males between the ages of 17 and 23, single, who entered the labor market and belong to lowincoming families of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil were conducted, recorded and transcribed. Likewise, observations on the forms of sociability among young people were made both in a square located in the downtown area of the city and in a neighborhood where some participants live. The data was analyzed qualitatively, according to the theme and based on Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology theory. Although belonging to different family arrangements, participants point the mothers as the closest affective figure, whereas the father or stepfather are relatively distant. Regarding the group sociability, most participants stated that they have affinity with their same-sex pairs, with whom they share personal issues, because these relationships are founded on mutual trust and reciprocity. The contact with peers is one way to reduce tensions between parental guidance and youth provisions, sharing common experiences and modifying their identities, which are reconstructed along their individual, social and generational history of life. The construction of their masculinity seems to be related to honor and virility. Despite traditional expressions of gender relations, the majority of the participants also expressed alternative ways to this model. Thus, they express certain changes in their representations of gender relations when compared to the parental attitudes and, even though these innovations are relatively small and coexist ambiguously with traditional models, they think of themselves as different from the previous generation of men in some defining dimensions of masculinity and in relation to women. Regarding to the participants\' life history, in particular about their entrance in the labor market and about sharing their daily lives with young people who engage in illegal activities in the neighborhood where they live, the respondents rely on the family as a reference for their moral codes, in order to become \"honest\", as opposed to those who are envolved in illegal activities, with whom they share the neighborhood cordially, or even have some proximity. (FAPESP)

<p>This essay is focused on the phenomena of self-injurious behavior of two young men. The purpose of the essay is to enlighten their experiences of their earlier self-injurious behavior, and to further enlighten which factors they believe have been contributed to the origin and the ending of the behavior. The research questions the essay raises are: Which factors has contributed to the origin of the self-injurious behavior? Which functions did the self-injurious behavior have for the young men? What made the two young men quit their self-injurious behavior? The essay is qualitative and do not imply to generalize the results and it is made from interviews with respondents and earlier research on self-injurious behavior. The results show that there are differences in the factors that origin of the self-injurious behavior between the respondents. The differences are for example the family situation and experiences of childhood traumas. There are also similarities in the origin of the self-injurious behavior, both respondents have had experiences of rejection from the environment. There are several differences between the respondents in the functions of the self-injurious behavior. One of the respondents used the self-injurious behavior to end a state of dissociation, other differences were the frequency and procedure of the self-injurious behavior. There are also similarities in the functions with the self-injurious behavior between both respondents, for them it was a way to cope with difficult situations and to let out emotions for example anxiety. There are differences in factors that can be correlated with the ending of the self-injurious behavior among the respondents. One of the respondents claims the positive treatment of his surroundings and therapy, when his self-injurious behavior became known, was contributing factors to the ending of hurting himself. The other respondent claims that a sense of responsibility for someone else was the most important factor in ending the self-injurious behavior. A similarity in the ending of the self-injurious behavior among the respondents is that both of them could manage to express their feelings and experiences in words. One of the conclusions is that self-injurious behavior among the young men, referring to the origin, function and ending of the behavior, shows many similarities with young women who has a self-injurious behavior.</p> / <p>Studien behandlar fenomenet självskadebeteende hos två unga män. Studiens syfte är att belysa unga mäns upplevelser av sitt tidigare självskadebeteende, samt att belysa vilka faktorer som de upplevt som bidragande till uppkomst och avslutning av självskadebeteendet.</p><p>Studiens frågeställningar lyder vidare: Vilka bakomliggande orsaker finns till de unga männens självskadebeteende? Vilka funktioner fyllde självskadebeteendet för de unga männen? Vad fick de unga männen att sluta med sitt självskadebeteende? Studien är kvalitativ, utan generaliseringsanspråk och bygger på intervjuer med respondenter samt tidigare forskning inom ämnet självskadebeteende. Resultaten visar att de bakomliggande orsakerna till respondenternas utvecklande av självskadebeteende skiljer sig delvis åt t.ex. familjesituationen och upplevda trauman. Även likheter påvisas i de bakomliggande orsakerna, båda respondenterna har i sin uppväxt upplevt avvisanden från omgivningen. De funktioner som självskadebeteendet har för respondenterna skiljer sig åt på ett flertal punkter, varav en av respondenterna använde självskadebeteendet till att häva ett dissociativt tillstånd, andra skillnader var frekvens och tillvägagångssätt. Funktioner med självskadebeteendet hos de bägge respondenterna rymmer också likheter, då båda respondenterna använde självskadebeteendet som ett sätt att hantera svåra situationer på, samt för att få utlopp för t.ex. ångest. Verksamma delar i avslutningen av självskadebeteendet skilde sig åt mellan respondenterna. En av respondenterna menar att omgivningens goda bemötande och terapi, då självskadebeteendet uppdagades, var bidragande faktorer till att respondenten senare kunde sluta att skada sig själv. Den andra respondenten menar att en känsla av ansvar för någon annan än sig själv var den största bidragande faktorn till avslutning av självskadebeteendet. Då båda respondenterna kunde sätta ord på sina känslor och upplevelser av sin situation bidrog detta till avslutningen av självskadebeteendet. En av de slutsatser som presenteras är att självskadebeteendet hos de unga männen avseende bakomliggande orsaker, funktion och bidragande orsaker till avslutning är att det finns många likheter med unga kvinnors självskadebeteende.</p>

This essay is focused on the phenomena of self-injurious behavior of two young men. The purpose of the essay is to enlighten their experiences of their earlier self-injurious behavior, and to further enlighten which factors they believe have been contributed to the origin and the ending of the behavior. The research questions the essay raises are: Which factors has contributed to the origin of the self-injurious behavior? Which functions did the self-injurious behavior have for the young men? What made the two young men quit their self-injurious behavior? The essay is qualitative and do not imply to generalize the results and it is made from interviews with respondents and earlier research on self-injurious behavior. The results show that there are differences in the factors that origin of the self-injurious behavior between the respondents. The differences are for example the family situation and experiences of childhood traumas. There are also similarities in the origin of the self-injurious behavior, both respondents have had experiences of rejection from the environment. There are several differences between the respondents in the functions of the self-injurious behavior. One of the respondents used the self-injurious behavior to end a state of dissociation, other differences were the frequency and procedure of the self-injurious behavior. There are also similarities in the functions with the self-injurious behavior between both respondents, for them it was a way to cope with difficult situations and to let out emotions for example anxiety. There are differences in factors that can be correlated with the ending of the self-injurious behavior among the respondents. One of the respondents claims the positive treatment of his surroundings and therapy, when his self-injurious behavior became known, was contributing factors to the ending of hurting himself. The other respondent claims that a sense of responsibility for someone else was the most important factor in ending the self-injurious behavior. A similarity in the ending of the self-injurious behavior among the respondents is that both of them could manage to express their feelings and experiences in words. One of the conclusions is that self-injurious behavior among the young men, referring to the origin, function and ending of the behavior, shows many similarities with young women who has a self-injurious behavior. / Studien behandlar fenomenet självskadebeteende hos två unga män. Studiens syfte är att belysa unga mäns upplevelser av sitt tidigare självskadebeteende, samt att belysa vilka faktorer som de upplevt som bidragande till uppkomst och avslutning av självskadebeteendet. Studiens frågeställningar lyder vidare: Vilka bakomliggande orsaker finns till de unga männens självskadebeteende? Vilka funktioner fyllde självskadebeteendet för de unga männen? Vad fick de unga männen att sluta med sitt självskadebeteende? Studien är kvalitativ, utan generaliseringsanspråk och bygger på intervjuer med respondenter samt tidigare forskning inom ämnet självskadebeteende. Resultaten visar att de bakomliggande orsakerna till respondenternas utvecklande av självskadebeteende skiljer sig delvis åt t.ex. familjesituationen och upplevda trauman. Även likheter påvisas i de bakomliggande orsakerna, båda respondenterna har i sin uppväxt upplevt avvisanden från omgivningen. De funktioner som självskadebeteendet har för respondenterna skiljer sig åt på ett flertal punkter, varav en av respondenterna använde självskadebeteendet till att häva ett dissociativt tillstånd, andra skillnader var frekvens och tillvägagångssätt. Funktioner med självskadebeteendet hos de bägge respondenterna rymmer också likheter, då båda respondenterna använde självskadebeteendet som ett sätt att hantera svåra situationer på, samt för att få utlopp för t.ex. ångest. Verksamma delar i avslutningen av självskadebeteendet skilde sig åt mellan respondenterna. En av respondenterna menar att omgivningens goda bemötande och terapi, då självskadebeteendet uppdagades, var bidragande faktorer till att respondenten senare kunde sluta att skada sig själv. Den andra respondenten menar att en känsla av ansvar för någon annan än sig själv var den största bidragande faktorn till avslutning av självskadebeteendet. Då båda respondenterna kunde sätta ord på sina känslor och upplevelser av sin situation bidrog detta till avslutningen av självskadebeteendet. En av de slutsatser som presenteras är att självskadebeteendet hos de unga männen avseende bakomliggande orsaker, funktion och bidragande orsaker till avslutning är att det finns många likheter med unga kvinnors självskadebeteende.