Despite its prevalence, men's anxiety is arguably under-researched and poorly understood. The present study explores the reasoning provided by male posters to an online discussion forum about the source of their anxiety. Posts were collected from an Australian anxiety online discussion forum. This study utilises discursive psychology, informed by principles of membership categorisation analysis, to describe how age, occupation and family-related identities can be invoked within common sense reasoning about the source of male anxiety. References to various identity categories were routinely employed by male forum posters in their representations of themselves, in order to describe the source of their anxiety in terms of a contrast between how they are, and how they should be. In examining accounts of anxiety and responses to those accounts, we can trace cultural knowledge about issues regarding men, masculinity and anxiety that those accounts make relevant. Findings illustrate how men's descriptions of the source of their anxiety should be understood as culturally bound and related to expectations and obligations associated with their social context and category memberships. By enhancing understandings of how men describe the source of their anxiety, this study offers insight into improving the identification and engagement of men experiencing anxiety in health services.

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“我知道你不应该与其他人比较，但我不能做大多数人可以做的事情”：在线讨论论坛中男性对焦虑的推理中的年龄、家庭和职业分类

尽管它很普遍，但男性的焦虑可以说是研究不足和了解甚少。本研究探讨了男性发帖者向在线讨论论坛提供的有关其焦虑来源的推理。帖子收集自澳大利亚焦虑症在线讨论论坛。本研究利用基于成员分类分析原则的话语心理学来描述如何在关于男性焦虑来源的常识推理中调用年龄、职业和与家庭相关的身份。参考各种身份类别按照常规通过公论坛的海报在他们自己的陈述中使用，以描述的对比度方面他们的焦虑源之间如何是，以及他们如何应是。在检查焦虑的描述和对这些描述的反应时，我们可以追溯与这些描述相关的关于男性、男子气概和焦虑问题的文化知识。调查结果说明了男性对其焦虑来源的描述应如何被理解为文化约束，并与与其社会背景和类别成员相关的期望和义务相关。通过增强对男性如何描述其焦虑来源的理解，本研究提供了洞察力，以提高对健康服务中经历焦虑症的男性的识别和参与。