Post Date December, 03 2023
Faced with all kinds of unfair treatment in the workplace, many people dare not speak up, so they choose "tolerance" to escape. The Swedish psychologist published a research report on the website of the British Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, saying that men who suppress anger for a long time will greatly increase the risk of heart disease.
Survey: 80% of workers have heart disease
According to the statistics of the intervention center, a total of 1600 person-times of psychological counseling were received last year, most of them were professionals. Among them, the psychological problems of teachers and civil servants are the most prominent, accounting for 40% of the people seeking help. This means that professionals are at high risk of mental disease outbreaks, and their psychological problems in terms of somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depression, anxiety and paranoia are significantly higher than those of the general population.
Be patient and sad
The research team led by the psychologist Konstanze Lineweber of the Stress Research Institute of Stockholm University, Sweden, screened 2755 men from 20 professional medical institutions from 1992 to 1995 and carried out a follow-up survey.
Researchers used questionnaires to ask respondents' reactions to unfair treatment of their superiors or colleagues at work: tit for tat, endure it silently, walk away or lose temper after returning home.
All respondents had no heart disease at the beginning of the survey. By the end of 2003, 47 of the respondents had heart disease or died of heart disease.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on the 24th that researchers found that people who often choose to "endure silently" or "walk away" are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease as those who face injustice and choose "tit for tat"; But the incidence rate of heart disease did not increase in those who chose to "lose their temper after going home".
Long-term depression of anger in men can increase the risk of heart disease
Scientific explanation
Researchers believe that if the resentment is not released in time, it will lead to physical tension, which will lead to blood pressure rise, and ultimately harm the cardiovascular system.
Their research is similar to the conclusion of an article published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine last year. The article pointed out that the bossy or incompetence of the boss would increase the incidence rate and mortality of heart disease of subordinates.
"I think men are not good at dealing with conflict. The problem is not what they think, but what their instinctive reaction is," Lineweber said
Judy O'Sullivan, senior nurse of the British Heart Foundation, said: "Stress itself does not pose a threat to the heart and blood circulation system, but some people's response to stress, such as smoking or overreaction, will increase the risk of disease."
O'Sullivan said: "We found that there are various forms of stress, but it is important to find ways to actively deal with work and family stress."
Men and women are different
The researchers also conducted a similar survey on about 2500 women, and found that the incidence rate of heart disease in women was too low to analyze.
Bruce Rabin, director of the "Healthy Life Program" program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the United States, pointed out that women are generally better at adapting to high-pressure environments than men.
"Social communication and interpersonal communication are very important," Rabin said. "If you keep everything in your mind, the level of stress hormones in your body will rise. Women are more sociable than men, while men are more inclined to be alone."
Although the research results show that suppressing anger is not good for health, Lineweber reminds people that this does not mean encouraging people to get angry at work at will. "Shouting and the like are not appropriate," she said.
The study did not explain how to deal with stress at work. Rabin said that because everyone's work and family environment are different, it is difficult to find a universal "universal decompression method".
