The house makes women more stress than work

Most women feel at home even more stressful than in the workplace. To such a disappointing conclusion reached by researchers from the Penn State.

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Many people think that the only home they have the opportunity free from work stress, relax your body and soul, and again taste for life. However, a study by American scientists has shown, that for many women, home is a more stressful environment than an office. And, more surprisingly, the highest stress levels   I celebrated at home in women which do not have any children.

Dimension stress levels   at 122 American men and women at work and at home engaged researchers Sarah Damascus Joshua Smith and Matthew Zawadzki. They were interested in people from different social and ethnic backgrounds, with different incomes and circumstances. Index cortisol in saliva gave a comprehensive picture of how much stress state is observed in humans.

It was found that the level of stress hormone in women was the low during the working day and the highest home in the evening and in the weekend throughout the day. In men, the opposite is true, although this difference stress the stronger sex did not show.

"Contrary to the traditional view that women This family and domestic creatures, we are convinced that representative the fairer sex feel much more stress at home than at work - says Sarah Damascus. - In fact, women useful work because unlike from the men they have to work a lot more happiness. Namely, men are happy at home more often than at work. Perhaps this is due to the fact that after working women still need to get up to the plate, to go shopping, to engage economy. Modern men are helping their loved ones, but the goods home Economy still on the shoulders of women. "(Read More)

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