PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Binge Eating Disorder, Binge Drinking, Binge Eating
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Overall, rates of mental illness are almost identical for men and women: women have higher rates of eating disorders, depression and anxiety disorders, men are more likely to have impulse control, antisocial and substance abuse disorders. Women who feel more loved and supported by their friends, relatives and children are at less risk for major depression. For men, level of social support is less strongly related to the risk of depression. Women use social support as a coping aid more than men. Taylor proposed that women often respond to stress by tending to themselves and their children and by forming ties with others. Men are more likely to show aggression or escape fight or flight. An optimistic outlook the expectation that good rather than bad things will happen has been linked to a variety of positive mental and physical health outcomes, including longer life. Pessimism is associated with poorer health outcomes and higher mortality.
