由美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的Laura Cousin Klein博士主持开展的妇女与友情研究的结果显示友情能够延长人的寿命。Klein博士从新的视角研究发现,友情具有可帮助妇女应对压力的心理机制。正如人们所知妇女在产生应激反应时可释放出大量催产素以减缓压力,而友情似乎与缓解应激反应相关。当妇女从事护理活动时,可产生更多的催产素,从而起到一种缓冲作用,雌激素似乎亦能增强机体的这一效能。从事妇女保健护理的工作者很早就意识到友情对妇女生命产生的有益影响。在过去的7年里,美国护理学会妇女保健(NPWA)临床会议一直致力 The results of a study on women and friendship conducted by Dr. Laura Cousin Klein of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) show that friendship can extend human life. From a new perspective, Dr. Klein found that friendship has a psychological mechanism that helps women cope with stress. Just as it is known that women can release large amounts of oxytocin to relieve stress when they develop a stress response, friendship seems to be related to the relief of the stress response. When women are engaged in nursing activities, they produce more oxytocin and thus act as a buffer, and estrogen seems to enhance the body’s potency. Workers engaged in women’s health care have long been aware of the beneficial impact that friendship has on women’s lives. For the past seven years, the American Nursing Society Women’s Health (NPWA) Clinical Meeting has been dedicated