More Stress in Women than Men

The results:

Women experience more stress than men

• Women multi-task.  Women juggle so many roles and duties that they bump into stressful situations more often. Instead of starting one thing and completing it to the end, you have many priorities at once and this is bound to create conflicts.
  
  Perhaps one conclusion is that women need to muti-task less.  Would stress in women decrease if you completed one task fully before starting the next?  Stop calling the dentist while driving to the grocery store.  Say no to volunteering at church and stop splitting yourself into many little parts.
  
  The other conclusion is that even though you multi-task, can you learn to focus your attention on what you are doing now, and not worry about what is coming next.  How many times do you plan what you will do after dinner, while you are making dinner?  Be busy, but be busy with one thing at a time.  Keep your attention single pointed.



• Women let go of distress but they have lots of stressors.  According to this study, women's stress was caused by many stressful events one after the other; it was not caused by carrying stress from one event to the next.  So women let go of an event when it happens, but there is always another one down the line.
  
  Could this study reflect how unsupported many women are in their everyday lives?  Few women have a community of family or friends which help them everyday.  Often you shoulder the burdens of your children and spouses alone.  Maybe women are stressed because they need more help?

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• Stressed Moms