Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty Narratives
Over one billion people experience the threats that period poverty (lack of access to menstrual products) poses to their well-being. Public health advocates have used storytelling as a communication strategy to raise awareness and motivate behaviors that help address this issue. In an experiment wi...
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University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications
2025-06-01
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Over one billion people experience the threats that period poverty (lack of access to menstrual products) poses to their well-being. Public health advocates have used storytelling as a communication strategy to raise awareness and motivate behaviors that help address this issue. In an experiment with 1467 U.S. adults, we investigated the effects of period poverty narratives among individuals with different gender identities. Given a story can be told from different points of view (POV), we manipulated POV in period poverty narratives (first- or third-person) and examined moderating effects of gender identity. We found both narrative and non-narrative messages about period poverty can be effective, though a first-person narrative may hold the most promise for men when communicating about this issue.
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| spelling | doaj-art-940bc397c7e54af5af32fb7810dab0942025-08-20T02:37:17ZengUniversity of Florida, College of Journalism and CommunicationsJournal of Public Interest Communications2573-43422025-06-019110.32473/jpic.v9.i1.p4Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty NarrativesYin Yang0Chris Skurka1Florida State UniversityPennsylvania State University Over one billion people experience the threats that period poverty (lack of access to menstrual products) poses to their well-being. Public health advocates have used storytelling as a communication strategy to raise awareness and motivate behaviors that help address this issue. In an experiment with 1467 U.S. adults, we investigated the effects of period poverty narratives among individuals with different gender identities. Given a story can be told from different points of view (POV), we manipulated POV in period poverty narratives (first- or third-person) and examined moderating effects of gender identity. We found both narrative and non-narrative messages about period poverty can be effective, though a first-person narrative may hold the most promise for men when communicating about this issue. https://journals.flvc.org/jpic/article/view/137330 |
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| title | Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty Narratives |
| title_full | Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty Narratives |
| title_fullStr | Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty Narratives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty Narratives |
| title_short | Making Inroads with the Outgroup: The Interactive Effects of Point of View and Group Membership in Period Poverty Narratives |
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