Men Do Care - British Psychological Society

Main Category: Anxiety / Stress
Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 11 Jan 2008 - 11:00 PDT

email to a friend   printer friendly   view / write opinions   rate article

Men worry more about their work-life balance than their female counterparts.

Lucy Watt, Business Psychologist from Robertson Cooper Limited, will present her and her colleagues research paper - Workplace Stress: Does Gender Matter? - today, Friday 11 January 2008, at the Annual Conference of the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Holiday Inn.

The study based on a sample of 40,000 workers reveals that men are more troubled by a host of other things that cause stress in the workplace than their female counterparts - including the needing to feel in control and having too much work to do.

These findings are contrary to previous research into the topic, which found no gender-based differences within the issue of work-life balance.
Professor Cary Cooper, Director of Robertson Cooper, said: "If, as our findings suggest, there are gender differences in the experience of stress then organisations would benefit from taking this into account when designing stress prevention and reduction initiatives."

British Psychological Society