Gender Differences in Processing Information for Making Self-Assessments of Health
Yael Benyamini, PhD,
Elaine A. Leventhal, MD, PhD and
Howard Leventhal, PhD
From the Bob Shapell School of Social Work (Y.B.), Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine (E.A.L.), University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ; and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research and Department of Psychology (H.L.), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

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Fig. 1. NA as a function of burden of serious diseases (low vs. high) and number of recent negative life events among women and men (N = 497 and 333, respectively; the serious diseases measure is dichotomized).
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