Who Handle Stress Better, women or men?
Itโs 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 โfight or flightโ response, women generally turn to
the less agressive โtend and befriendโ 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 sexesโ 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.#news
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