Spousal support reduces the harmful effects of work-related stress.
People with stressful occupations that have a bad relationship with her husband suffer an increase in your blood pressure average in a year, while the pressure decreases the same level in those with work-related stress but with a good marital relationship, a study revealed. The results of the research were published in American Journal of Hypertension. “People with high job strain and little marital cohesion should be controlled regularly blood pressure”, wrote the team led by Dr. Sheldon w. Tobe, of the University of Toronto. Researchers sought to examine whether occupational factors and marital quality, that independently affect health, interacting to modify blood pressure. The team followed a year in 229 men and women who were living with a spouse or partner and did not have hypertension at the beginning of the study. The authors analysed specifically “marital cohesion” of couples, i.e., how much are supporting each other. Participants used ambulatory devices of control of the blood pressure throughout a workday at the beginning of the study and a year later. People with high levels of work stress and little marital cohesion had an increase of three points in systolic pressure (maximum value). On the other hand, those with United marriages and job stress had a reduction of three points in systolic pressure. When the researchers studied men and women separately, the relationship between stress, blood pressure and marital cohesion remained strong in women, but disappeared among men, which indicates that the effect depends on the genre. Suffer from work-related stress and have little control over labour demands power inflammation and the levels of the stress hormones, noted the authors. “In an affected person, the calming effect of marital cohesion high decreases blood pressure to reverse that effect”, he explained the team.
