英国妇女：

没有男人，神圣又自在

应中革　译自2003－12－23　时代杂志（From The Times），澳大利亚网

女人幸福的关键或许就在于避开男人。英国的一次民意测验发现，单身女子与初婚妻子一样快乐。与那些经受长期夫妻关系中出现裂缝之痛苦的妻子们相比，单身女子享受更良好的精神健康。

男人则相反，处于夫妻关系中的男人精神状态好些。接二连三的婚姻关系对男人的精神健康有益，而对女人则有负面影响。

以上研究论文发表在《流行病学和公共卫生》杂志上后，圣布里奇特. 琼斯哲学体系提出不同观点：女人只有征服了一个男人的时候才算得到真正的幸福。

伦敦大学的研究人员以4500位年龄在65以下的成年人的调查问卷的答案为依据，作出以上结论的。研究人员还发现：如果男人只与一个女人生活，他们的精神状态很好，而这种婚姻生活对妇女的精神健康更有益。

夫妻关系破裂对双方的性生活造成痛苦，种痛苦折磨女人时间长一些。家庭破裂越多，新的夫妻关系启动越多，女人的精神健康则日益恶化。在所有被　被调查的妇女中，婚姻破裂后仍然单身一人的女人精神状况最差，除了一些单身女人在家庭破裂后马上就有一个性伴。

研究人员指出，“单身男人比处于第一次婚姻关系中男人精神健康状况差，相反，单身女人的精神健康状况与处于第一次婚姻关系中的女人的健康状况一样好，而且比经受过关系破裂的女人的健康状况更好。这个调查结果进一步支持了一个发现：单身男人比已婚男人苦闷，而女人正好相反。

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All those Bridgets better off manless
From The Times
December 23, 2003

The key to a woman's happiness could be to avoid men. A British survey has found that women who stay single are as happy as wives in a first marriage and enjoy better mental health than those who suffer a split from a long-term relationship.

The opposite is true for men, who fare better mentally if they are in a relationship. Serial relationships are also good for men's mental health, but have an adverse effect on women.

The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, is at odds with the Bridget Jones philosophy that women can only achieve true happiness when they have nabbed a man.

Researchers at the University of London based their findings on responses to a questionnaire sent to 4500 adults aged under 65. The team also found that while men did better mentally if they simply lived with a partner, marriage was more beneficial to a woman's mental health.

Break-ups were also painful for both sexes, but women generally took longer to recover. Women's mental health also got progressively worse the more break-ups they had and the more new relationships they had to start.

Women who remained alone after a marriage split had the worst mental health of all those surveyed, apart from those who were alone immediately after breaking up with a partner.

"Men in first partnerships displayed better mental health than those who remained single, whereas women who remained single displayed equally good mental health to those in their first partnership and better health than those who had experienced a partnership split," the researchers said. "This is further support for the finding that single men display more distress than married men and vice versa for women."