Stop teasing mama's boys, they're healthier!

They might be mama's boys, but stop teasing them, as researchers found their mental health is better than others.

A professor at Arizona State University presented a study at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. According to the study he conducted following 426 boys through middle school to investigate the extent to which the boys favor stereotypically male qualities such as emotional stoicism and physical toughness over stereotypically feminine qualities such as emotional openness and communication, and whether that has any influence on their mental well-being.

His main finding was that the further along the boys got in their adolescence, the more they tended to embrace hypermasculine stereotypes. But boys who remained close to their mothers did not act as tough and were more emotionally available. Closeness to fathers did not have the same effect, his research found.

So what's wrong with learning to stop sniveling and "be a man"? Research has shown that stereotypically masculine traits such as autonomy and toughness can make men less likely to seek medical help when it's needed. full story

裙腳仔的心理健康比其他人更好

常常當媽媽「貼身保鑣」的「裙腳仔」其實沒有什麼不好，至少一項研究報告顯示，這種親密關係讓男性情緒上有更多的安全感，從而減少他們的壓力及加強健康生活。