Addressing Ethical Issues in Studying Men’s Traumatic Stress

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William Affleck
J.L. Oliffe
Sarah McKenzie
Damien Ridge
Emily Jenkins
Alex Broom

Abstract

Like many human experiences, traumatic stress is highly gendered. Over the past several decades, a sub-stantial number of empirical studies have explored ethical issues in traumatic stress research. However, these studies have typically reported female samples or failed to account for the influence of gender in their analyses of mixed-sex samples. By extension, ethical issues that are relevant to male participants in traumatic stress research are poorly understood. After briefly exploring why the vulnerabilities of male participants are under-explored in traumatic stress research, this article highlights many ethical issues that are important to address when men participate in traumatic stress research, concluding with some sugges-tions for how these might be taken up to advance the field.

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Affleck, W., Oliffe, J., McKenzie, S., Ridge, D., Jenkins, E., & Broom, A. (2020). Addressing Ethical Issues in Studying Men’s Traumatic Stress . International Journal of Mens Social and Community Health, 3(1), e16-e23. https://doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v3i1.27
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