Who is peaceable men or women?

Survey on how to deal with health and illness: who is lighthearted: men or women?

20/06/2013

"Whiner" A term that is often used against people who pity themselves too much or too quickly and complain about it. Is it a typical male habit to be more self-conscious about mild illnesses??

Distinct differences in gender perceptions
Are they really more forgiving than women, or are they more in tune with the stereotypes of „Typical man“, the, like the „Indian knows no pain“? A representative survey of the health magazine „pharmacy magazine“, carried out by the GfK Market Research Nuremberg, at least revealed that there are enormous differences between external and self-perception of the sexes. In the survey on male health and disease, the majority of women (85.1 percent) said that men are often more self-pitying than themselves and that they would complain when the first signs of illness appear. Men shared this view much less often with 47.0 percent.

Men believe their life is more exhausting
For 71.0 percent, almost three-quarters of men, it is clear that because of their generally greater workload, they lead a more strenuous and stressful life and would therefore die sooner. Less than half of women (46.3 percent) share this view. Similarly, the female gender doubts that men are physically active and therefore healthier than they are. 17.1 percent of the women represent this thesis, but with 33.1 percent almost every third man.

Biologically based piety
To the piety there are also results from scientific studies. British researchers at Queen Mary University in London have found that the male immune system, in contrast to the female one, responds more slowly and less efficiently to infectious diseases. This is the reason that men have always been more serious than women. Accordingly, men would also feel sicker than women. The results were obtained in the study of mice, but according to researchers are readily transferable to humans. (Ad)

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