Récits de vie d’hommes ayant vécu une situation de détresse sociale : quels facteurs à l’œuvre dans leurs parcours vers un mieux-être?
A growing number of researches are looking at male realities. However, social distress is a concept that has not been addressed by these. This concept refers to a combination of social and relational experiences that leads to a sense of distress. With the publication of his Men's Health and Welfare Action Plan, the government of Quebec announces that it intends to focus more on the specific needs of men in health and social services. This master's thesis seeks to demonstrate, through the analysis of life stories, the trajectory towards the well-being undertaken by seven men who have experienced a social distress experience. Using a qualitative approach, and clinical sociology as an interpretative paradigm, this research attempts to demonstrate how the objective conditions of existence, and the various events inherent in life trajectories, may have an impact on psychological health. We could talk about a social experience of distress. Thus, it has been demonstrated in this research that people who are experiencing episodes of insecurity can be led to feel a distress that often has no place to express. This is truer for men who have a more rigid adherence to the norms of masculinity. In this sense, the stories collected highlight the major repercussions of male socialization on the trajectories of human aid demand.
Social distress male masculinity socialization resilience clinical sociology biographical approach trajectory