Women experience higher stress from major life events than men, study reveals

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Women experience higher stress from major life events than men, study reveals

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March 15, 2017 at 7:28 AM

New research has highlighted the potential gender gap in stress, with women reporting higher stress from life events such as death of a loved one, illness, losing their smartphone and Brexit.

The study, based on YouGov research commissioned by The Physiological Society, asked over 2000 people to rate how stressful they found key life events -- and for every event, women were more stressed than men. The biggest difference was in the stress caused by the threat of terrorism and the smallest for the arrival of the first child.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20170315/Women-experience-higher-stress-from-major-life-eventsc2a0than-men-study-reveals.aspx

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Alternatively - men and women experience similar levels of stress from major life events, but women are more comfortable reporting it. You notice the event with the smallest difference, the birth of your first child, is the one event men have constantly been told it's OK to worry about for decades.

There is absolutely zero excuse for such sloppy and crappy studies. Stress has it's own hormones, it's own metabolic byproducts, and it's own physiological effects. A study relying on self reporting is about as useful as phrenology.