Health Issue: Men more, hurt than Women

Men more hurt than women

over rocky relationships

       Despite their blase demeanours, young men are more affected by the ups and downs of romantic relationships than their girl friends are, a new study suggests.

      

      While young women are more affected by their relationship status that is, whether they are in one or not young men are more sensitive to a relationship's quality, such as how supportive or staraining it is, Live Science reported.

       "Simply being in a relationship may be more important for a woman's identity," said lead researcher Robin Simon of Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Having a relationship "is something that is emphasized constantly for women.Just pick up any woman's magazine."

        But once in a relationship, the romance's strengths are particularly helpful to men, and its diffecult periods are particularly hard on them, Simon told Live Science.

       In the study, 1,611 men and women between the ages of 18 and 23 answered questions about their relationships and their own emotional states, including rating symptoms of depression and substance abuse. The questions were asked twice, two years apart, helping researchers deduce that emotional states were largely influenced by a relationship, not the other way around.

       Rochy relationships were associated with equal amounts of depression in young men and women, and significantly greater problems with substance abuse and dependence among men. The correlative findings were published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour.