@article{ref1,
title="Tend and Befriend Versus Fight or Flight: Gender Differences in Behavioral Response to Stress Among University Students",
journal="Journal of applied biobehavioral research",
year="2005",
author="Turton, S and Campbell, Cathy",
volume="10",
number="4",
pages="209-232",
abstract="Taylor et al. (2000) proposed that female behavioral responses to stress are characterized better as &quot;tend and befriend&quot; than &quot;fight or flight.&quot; Q methodology was adopted to investigate different responses to stress. A Q set of 61 statements was sorted by 40 participants (18 male, 22 female) using principal components factor analysis. Four factors were extracted, accounting for 53.5% of the total variance. The 4 factors corresponded with fight, flight, tend, and befriend stress responses. Females were more likely to portray a tend-and-befriend response to stress. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to past research that has been conducted with participants, predominantly of a single gender and for future stress research studies.<p />",
language="",
issn="1071-2089",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}