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Research finds that women are more vulnerable to social and life stressors and respond by using a tend-and-befriend pattern.
What is Tend-and-Befriend behavioral Responses to Stress in Females?
Men and women are both at risk for various stress-related disorders, however women are more likely to experience sadness and anxiety.
- As implicitly assumed by research, human female responses to stress are not well characterized by fight-or-flight, but rather by a pattern we refer to as "tend-and-befriend."
- Female stress responses have specifically developed to promote both self- and offspring-survival because of uneven parental investment.
- Females respond to stress by protecting their young, engaging in behaviors that minimize neuroendocrine reactions that can jeopardize the health of their children (the tending pattern), and befriending, specifically: joining social groups to cut down on risk.
- The creation, maintenance, and use of these social groups by females, particularly relationships with other females, to cope with stressful situations is supported by evidence from humans and other species.
- Our hypothesis is that female reactions to stress may be based on attachment-caregiving mechanisms that suppress sympathetic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) reactions to stress.
- The tend-and-befriend pattern may be oxytocin mediated and moderated by sex hormones and endogenous opioid peptide mechanisms, according to a large body of research on animal and human neuroendocrine responses to stress that is used to support this biobehavioral theory.
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