Health and conformity with traditional gender norms in men and women nurses (original) (raw)

The pattern of health differences between men and women nurses fits the known pattern of differences between women and men: men have better self-perceived health, fewer illnesses, use less drugs, have better mental health, less stress, consume more alcohol, have fewer problems with sleep and exercise more. As for the relationship between these variables and scales according to gender norms, manifested greater emotional control (Scale 2), show better self-perceived health and less go to the doctor, the more score on the scale of violence (Scale 4 ), consume less drugs and more alcohol consumed, the more score in dominance (level 6), go to the doctor less and have more satisfaction at work, the more score in playboy (Scale 7), the more alcohol consumed, the more score in disdain of homosexuality (Scale 10), suffer less ailments. Positive relationships between risk taking (escala3) and doctor visits can perhaps be explained precisely by the increased likelihood of accidents if they take more risks. And relations between the higher value of status (Scale 11) and lower job satisfaction will be explained, perhaps because the type of work exercised by these men nurses hospital, which probably are not too many possibilities to increase their prestige social, which may also take him to greater consumption of alcohol. For women, higher scores on the scale of thinness (Scale 2) but are related to a mental health and worse tobacco consumption, both features consistent with a pattern of female health, the highest scores on the scale children (Scale 5) are associated with worse perceived health and lower alcohol consumption, the greater conformity with the importance of romantic relationships (Scale 6) are related to mental health but paradoxically regard to female pattern of health with increased consumption of alcohol. Alcohol consumption is problematic because it is also associated with higher image score (scale 8) and modesty (level 3) the latter is also associated with greater sleep problems, which also fits the pattern of female health.