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Guess that “Calgon, take me away” plea isn’t so passe after all. In a 24-hour period, married women are 50 percent more likely than men to complain of being in a bad mood, according to reports from a Harvard University researcher. Conventional wisdom has held that women simply dwell on distress more than men, but Richard C. Kessler, a Harvard sociologist, theorizes that married women actually experience more daily stressors than men. They often are stretched by their career, their kids’ friends, the grocery shopping, ball playing, bill paying, etc., whereas men tend to be strained mainly by work, finances and immediate family, Kessler says. The study was reported recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
