Research* reported in the media this week has shown that in general women feel significantly higher levels of guilt than men. The Spanish study found that women are more likely to brood over forgetting a friend’s birthday, snapping at a friend for no reason and going back on promises to help people.
Middle-aged women tend to feel the most guilt about their actions, according to the study, by academics at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Men aged 25 to 33 were the least sensitive with "comparatively low" feelings of guilt.
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* Intensity of Habitual Guilt in Men and Women: Differences in Interpersonal Sensitivity and the Tendency towards Anxious-Aggressive Guilt. Itziar Etxeharria, M. José Ortiz, Susana Conejero, and Aitziber Pasczral. Spanish Journal of Psycholfromogy, Nov 2009, Vol 12, Number 2
**Immunological Effects of Induced Shame and Guilt. Sally S. Dickerson, MA, Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD, Najib Aziz, MD, Kevin H. Kim, PhD and John L. Fahey, MD Psychosomatic Medicine 66:124-131 (2004)
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