Behavioral Muscle Weakness Adult Men
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- Male-female rearing differences
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1950's women were5-10% medical student
2005-2006 women were 48.5%
public recognition of acts of heroism overwhelmingly cite men, ie Carnegie heroism medalist winners - Men vs women
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men - mathmatical and related quantitative judment, spatial, analogies
women - verbal expression, spend more time interviewing, better psychotherapists -
Men vs women
psychiatric disorders -
men - unlawful, excessive gambling, more likely to die from suicide attempts
women - depression, eating disorders, more suicidal attempts -
Erikson's Life cycle stages
20-35
35-65
over 65 -
20-35: Intimacy(lasting relationships) vs isolation(failure to form lasting relationships)
35-65: Generativity(children,work,leadership) vs stagnation
over 65: Ego integrity(positive reflection about life) vs Despair(good ol days griping) - Other important tasks for men
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emancipation from family
est boundaries
handling romance
providing affection
parentiong
facing declining stamina/bodies
these are affected by DIMENSIONS -factors like sex of partner, children, illness, poverty etc - frequency of sexual intercourse
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25: 3/week
40: 2/week
40-60:1/week -
monagomy and genetic testing
domestic violence during spouse's preg
impact on men attending delivery
men and handling new baby(jealousy)
deatbeat dads(prison $250,000) - longitudinal studies - problems = long term funding, research subjects, investigators
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Divorce data
40-43% divorce after mean 9 yrs
50% last over 25yrs
71% of kids live w/two parents - kjg
- Predictors of poor physical health
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low tranquilizer use befor 50
low alcohol/smoking
no warm childhood environment
mood disorders - predictors of poor mental health
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use of tranq b4 50
immature defense mechanism use - acting out, projecting, excessive fantasy - physiologic changes in males
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presbyopia(far-sightedness)
high frequency hearing loss
reduction in circ TT
decreased erection - a group of psychological mechanisms, many of which operate unconsciously, which hellp us balance our instinctual drives with social expectations
- defense mechanism
- one diopter
- power of lens to bend light at 1 meter,
- erectile dysfunction
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speed of decline increased by diabetes mellitus, hypertension,medications
REM sleep(rapid eye mvmt) during stage 5, happens 4-6 times a night once every 1.5 hours
80-50% reduction in REM erections by 60
increase in time to acheive erections(2-3 times longer) and longer erectile refractory period - gold reports
- good comm b/w couples and willingness to do non intercourse sexual activities = sexually satisfying relationship
- Mental health and survival
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distress and longevity
alcohol - Valliants data
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% dead by 70
undistressed - 5
interm distress - 28
depressed - 40