14 DAY TRIAL // A new research whose findings were published in the online journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity argues that there is a scientific explanation for why women tend to be grumpier than men in the morning.
By the looks of it, it all comes down to how much sleep they need and how much sleep they actually get.
The team of scientists who took the time to investigate these behavioral patterns explains that, when compared to men, women need to sleep a tad longer. However, most of them fail to do so.
Because of their being sleep deprived, women can wake up to find that they feel aggressive, irritated and even hostile, The Inquisitr says.
As Dr. Michael Breus puts it, “We found that women had more depression, women had more anger, and women had more hostility early in the morning.”
In order to reach these conclusions concerning what exactly makes women act grumpy in the morning, the researcher interviewed and monitored a total of 210 volunteers, both men and women.
For the most part, they focused on gathering information concerning how much sleep these people got on a daily basis and how they felt in the morning. Still, blood samples were also collected and analyzed.
Apparently, poor sleep affects women more than it affects men.
Thus, whereas the former are likely to experience psychological, emotional and mental setbacks because of their not getting enough rest, the latter are fully capable of making it through the day without feeling upset or annoyed for no proper reason.
Furthermore, it appears that lack of sleep also makes women more prone to developing health conditions such as heart diseases and type 2 diabetes.
Just for the record, women need more sleep because of their ability to carry out multi-tasking thought processes.
As the researchers explain, their using their brain in this manner is what tires them and translates into their needing more rest.