工作压力也分男女：当压力遇上性别差异-英语课

时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：实用英语

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First thing Monday morning, most of us would agree that going to work can be a little depressing.

星期一早上的第一件事就是上班，我们中的大多数人都认为这有点郁闷。
New research out of Canada found that the causes of more serious depression, though, differ along gender 1 lines.
加拿大的一项新研究发现，职场人还有比星期一上班更郁闷的事，不过男女对于这些烦心事的定义各不相同。
Women are more likely to experience job-related depression when they don’t feel appreciated at their jobs or aren’t appropriately rewarded for their efforts and achievements.
当女性感到自己的工作没有受到赏识，或者自己的努力和成绩没有受到相应的奖励时，就会感受到压力。女性的压力来源于与工作相关的事情。
Men are more likely to feel it when they’re also feeling a lot of job strain, defined as “risk to physical and mental health from the stress of facing high psychological workload 2 demands or pressures combined with low control or decision latitude 3 in meeting those demands.”
男性在工作非常紧张的时候，也会有压力。研究人员认为，“男性的工作压力和神经紧张主要来源于处理巨大工作量时产生的心理压力，还有，因处理工作时控制力不够或选择范围小而引发的压力。这些压力会对男性的身心健康产生威胁，从而使他们感到压力重重。”
Interestingly, women don’t interpret job strain the same way. Researchers say that this is only further indication that women aren’t defined by their work achievements like men are, and also point to the work-life balance quandary 4: Men are more likely to be depressed 5 when family life interferes 6 with work life … and women when work life interferes with family.
有趣的是，女性的工作压力不能用以上说法来解释。研究人员表示，这进一步表明了女人的工作压力不像男人，无法用她们的工作成绩解释。研究人员接着又指向职场与家庭的平衡关系：当家庭影响到工作时，男性会感到郁闷，而当工作影响到家庭时，女性则感到抑郁。
Both sexes were more likely to experience depression when worrying about losing their jobs, and women who worked full time were at a greater risk for depression than those who held part-time jobs. Men had a similar risk when working full-time 7, but only combined with high levels of job strain.
担心失业时，男性和女性都很可能会感到抑郁。并且，和兼职女性比起来，全职女性抑郁几率更大。全职男性也有类似的情绪，但仅仅在很大工作压力情况下。
The new data isn’t too upsetting in itself, but when combined with the chances that workplace stress could kill you, it’s worrisome. So in honor of your mental health, learn how to beat it.
这个数据本身并没有太大问题，但把它和职场压力致死的可能性联系到一起时，就令人忧心忡忡了。因此，为了你的心理健康，要学会克服这种情绪。