Gender

Women live longer than man in most of the countries. It is caused by that women could handle their stress better than man. This might happen because of three possibilities. First possibility is that gender differences in physiological responses to stressors. Second possibility is gender differences in life style as reflecting different ways of handing stressful situation. Third possibility is gender difference in the behavior which produced in stressful situation. Stone et al1 in 1990 found that women’s blood pressure increases more than man in situation of performing as stressful tasks. Frankenhaeuser et al in 1976 similarly found that boy made faster increase in stress hormones than girl as taking examination. These findings show that the sympathetic adrenal medullary system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical are sensitively in males than in females.