London, Aug 07 ANI | 10 months ago

A new study has recently revealed that some women can handle the anguish of unwanted sexual advances in a lot better way than others.

In the study conducted by Dawn Szymanski and Chandra Feltman of the University of

Tennessee in the US it was deduced that resilient women are more successful at managing adverse experiences because they were able to cope and adapt. Resilience was both a style of personal functioning and a way in which people ably adapt to stressful situations.

The findings showed that young women experience increased psychological distress when they are being sexually objectified. Some women feel confused and shameful so they blame themselves, rather than the perpetrators, and this causes psychological distress.


Feltman suggested that psychologists could help their female clients to identify and explore various ways by which they could better cope with sexually oppressive behavior.

He further added that interventions aimed at decreasing individual and cultural practices of sexually objectifying women are also required in addition to that.

The study is published in Springer's journal Sex Roles.

(Posted on 07-08-2014)

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