It’s commonly said that women are better at coping with stress than men, but a new study has actually pinpointed why this may be the case.
Previous studies looking at the ways that men and women respond to stress have found that while men tend to react with the “fight or flight” response, women generally turn to the less agressive “tend and befriend” response. In other words, while men might respond to a stressful situation by lashing out or avoiding the issue, women are more likely to seek out social support.
A State University of New York at Buffalo study, published this week in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, provides further insight into the sexes’ differing stress responses. Buffalo researchers found that the hormone estrogen has a protective effect on the brain that causes female rats to respond better to repeated stress exposure than male rats.
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