“…Thus, at the most general level, psychological factors are recognised as having an association with physical morbidity among both adults and adolescents (Zealley, 1983;Cadman, Boyle, Szatmari & Offord, 1986;Mechanic & Hansell, 1987;Weinman, 1987;Lewinsohn, Seeley, Hibbard, Rohde & Sack, 1996;Cohen, Pine, Must, Kasen & Brook, 1998), while muscular tension is associated with pain (Weisenberg, 1977), headache (Martin, Nathan, Milech & van Keppel, 1989) and hyperventilation (Garsen & Rijken, 1986). This would suggest that one possible reason for the relative increase in certain health measures, such as headaches, dizziness and 'poor' self-rated health, among females, is that they are associated with psychological distress.…”