The women are best recognized for organizing their role as professional and house maker pretty flawlessly. However, this organizing may cost them more stress than they can actually manage. It is better known as double shift stress syndrome, found a novel study.
Working women tolerate double shift stress both at work as well as at home. It causes them back and neck pain that is far more than their male companions, according to research team from University of Gothenburg, in Sweden. To evaluate the potential cause of stress in women researchers conducted study, occupied two groups of men and women.
The first group includes six hundred female and five hundred and fifty male students and second group include eight hundred seventy female and eight hundred and forty male computer workers. They were examined for the period of four years. During study period female students complained more neck pain and female computer workers showed more signs of back and neck pain.
It is believed by team that in both computer users as well as students the neck and back pain is caused due to psychological aspects. In almost every developed country women perform what they call double shift, explained study author Prof Cary Cooper, organizational psychologist at Lancaster University, while commenting on the finding published in a Post Doctoral thesis.
Woman go to work like male, however, then also come back home and do the primary role at home, so tolerate double pressure from those two roles. It was found through study that women, both students and working, were more prone to be affected by the double whammy of pressure, escorting to more stress, even when the physical causes of pain were uninvolved.
The outcomes were surprising as they had anticipated roughly the same number of women as men would develop neck pain in a young group like this, where the majority had yet to start a family, explained Anna Grimby-Ekman, one of the academics.
For female students there is the added pressure of having to compete in a man’s world and be better than men to land top positions in their fields, added Prof Copper. They have also found is that women will deal with the symptoms of stress far more than men.