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"Tend & Befriend"
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"Tend & Befriend"
Overview
Overview
- Drive of social connection
- Social isolation causes increase in Oxytocin
- oxytocin - causes use to seek social contact
- Promotes maternal tending and protection of social group
- Social support helps reduce distress and anxiety when feeling stressed out.
- Tend - refers to protection of friends and family
- befriend -refers to seeking out the social group for mutual defense
- Tend and befriend is a response to threat
- Different from flight or fight
- One of the two physiological stress response
- Found in both genders, but seen mostly in females
Male Vs. Female Perspective
- “Flight or fight”:
- “The aggressive fight-or-flight reaction is more dominant in men.
- Stress research has been guided heavily by the fight or flight metaphor, responses that may protect individuals but that are not social in nature.
Male Vs. Female Perspective
- "Tend & Befriend":
- women predominantly adopt a less aggressive tend-and-befriend response
- So while men favor punching or running away, women are more likely to try to diffuse a situation and seek out social support.
Evidence
- researchers suggested that this difference might all come down to one gene that only men have, called the SRY gene.
- "The results suggest that the SRY gene impacts men’s hearts and brains during times of stress, causing blood pressure to rise and encouraging an aggressive fight-or-flight response. Since the SRY gene is absent in women, these responses are instead guided by estrogen and other pain-controlling internal opiates, which don’t encourage aggression."
Principles and Evidence
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/men-stress-response-fight-or-flight-women-tend-and-befriend-sry-gene_n_1345075.html
Outcomes Of Theories
Outcomes of This Theory
- “Tend & befriend” is not just activated in us when we are posed with a dangerous, possibly life-threatening situation. Rather simple stressors can trigger this response.
- Due to the positive outlook of “tend & befriend” this response benefits both women and children’s mental and physical well-being. Additionally, it allows for a health mechanism to cope with stress through talking and getting support from peer in social groups.
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/behavior/what-is-tend-and-befriend-and-why-is-it-so-important/
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