TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Tend and Befriend Versus Fight or Flight: Gender Differences in Behavioral Response to Stress Among University Students
JO  - Journal of applied biobehavioral research
A1  - Turton, S
A1  - Campbell, Cathy
SP  - 209
EP  - 232
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
N2  - Taylor et al. (2000) proposed that female behavioral responses to stress are characterized better as "tend and befriend" than "fight or flight." 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 />
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SN  - 1071-2089
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -