Citation

Turton S, Campbell C. J. Appl. Biobehav. Res. 2005; 10(4): 209-232.

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(Copyright © 2005, John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

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.