Sunday, 5 June 2011

Stress in women

Seems to be common knowledge that women are generally more occupied and more stressed that men, affecting most functions and constantly rushes. But the truth is this perception?

Researchers from the school of family and resources of the consumer of the University of Arizona decided to find out. A sample of 166 pairs and had each participant keep a daily journal during 42 days, where they recorded their stressful daily. In fact, the results showed that women reported a greater number of days of "great distress" and fewer days of anguish without men.

Curiously, the differences in the levels of stress days were due to women experiencing a start "episodes of distress" (having active response to stress), rather than being more likely to continue in a State of anguish from one day to another. In other words, women do not hold in their stress; only experienced episodes of stood out.

This leads to some important issues with regard to women and stress, that women need to be at the tanto of:

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