The effect of premenstrual anxiety and depression on cognitive function.

Golub, Sharon

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.34.1.99

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“…The findings from studies grounded in this broader perspective at last revealed more accurate information about girls' experiences of menarche and menstruation. First, along with women (and men) who subscribed to mostly negative beliefs about menstruation, and associated it with unpleasant physical symptoms, negative moods, and debilitated performance [10][11][12][13] preand early postmenarcheal girls (and boys) were found to share negative attitudes and expectations about menstruation. The similarity in responses across all three groups, who differed with respect to menstrual experience, suggested that cultural beliefs were readily accessible at an early age.…”

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Cultural Perceptions and Practices around Menarche and Adolescent Menstruation in the United States

Stubbs

2008

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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This overview details the persistence of negative characterizations of the menstrual cycle as a feature of the current cultural context in which girls begin menstrual life in the United States. In addition, research on girls' current menstrual attitudes and experiences within this context are reviewed. Current research suggests that girls are not very knowledgeable about menstruation, and that menstrual education continues to provide girls with mixed messages, such as: menstruation is a normal, natural event, but it should be hidden. Girls' attitudes and expectations about menstruation are negatively biased and have been found to contribute to self-objectification, body shame, and lack of agency in sexual decision-making. Although preparation has been found to be associated with more positive menarcheal and menstrual experiences, specificity about what constitutes "good" preparation has not been well articulated. Implications for promoting the menstrual cycle among young girls as a vital sign in service of monitoring their health are discussed.

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Cultural Perceptions and Practices around Menarche and Adolescent Menstruation in the United States

Stubbs

2008

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…The MDQis a 47-item questionnaire that measures physical and psychologic symptoms during three In addition to this initial sample, Moos (25) summarized MDQ data on 1542 women who participated in studies conducted by other investigators (e.g. [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. These samples are composed of women between the ages of 20 and 35 who tended to have normal menstrual cycles and minor to moderate cyclical symptoms.…”

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Perimenstrual symptoms: prevalence and risk factors.

Logue¹,

Moos²

1986

Psychosomatic Medicine

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This article provides an overview of information on the prevalence of perimenstrual symptoms. Overall, at least 40% of women experience some cyclical perimenstrual symptoms. Although most women rate their symptoms as mild, approximately 2%-10% report severe symptoms. Prospective studies of perimenstrual symptoms indicate that retrospective reports are reasonably accurate among women who experience moderate to severe symptoms. However, among the majority of women with few or minimal symptoms, retrospective reports may amplify the cyclicity of variation in comparison to concurrent reports. A variety of risk factors are associated with patterns of symptom reporting and may provide clues to the etiology of perimenstrual symptoms and help to identify women most vulnerable to them. A woman's age and cycle characteristics are predictors of the type and severity of perimenstrual symptoms she experiences. In addition, a history of affective illness may be associated with increased reporting of perimenstrual symptoms. Future research should focus on developing new diagnostic criteria for subtypes of perimenstrual syndromes, exploring positive symptoms and experiences associated with the menstrual cycle, and formulating holistic treatment approaches that view perimenstrual syndromes as psychosomatic conditions.

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“…Generally the psychologic symptomatology reported includes depression, irritability, anxiety, and apprehension, and the physiologic symptoms include water retention, pain, fatigue, headache, and backache (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15). The prevailing view among medical researchers is that these cyclic fluctuations are due to changing levels of female sex hormones (16).…”

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Menstrual Cycle Symptomatology: The Role of Social Expectancy and Experimental Demand Characteristics

Aubuchon

Calhoun

1985

Psychosomatic Medicine

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of experimental demand characteristics and social expectancies on the report and experience of presumed menstrual cycle-related moods and symptoms. Participating in the study were 18 healthy women with regular menstrual cycles who were randomly assigned to either a group told that menstrual cycle symptomatology was the focus of the study or a group to which no interest in menstrual cycle symptoms was communicated. Nine males were also included as a control group. Results indicated that women who were informed of the interest in menstrual cycle symptomatology reported significantly more negative psychologic and somatic symptoms at the premenstrual and menstrual phases than did the women and men not so informed. It appears, therefore, that the report of stereotypic menstrual cycle symptomatology is influenced by social expectancy and experimental demand characteristics.

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The effect of premenstrual anxiety and depression on cognitive function.

Cited by 44 publications

References 23 publications

Cultural Perceptions and Practices around Menarche and Adolescent Menstruation in the United States

Cultural Perceptions and Practices around Menarche and Adolescent Menstruation in the United States

Perimenstrual symptoms: prevalence and risk factors.

Menstrual Cycle Symptomatology: The Role of Social Expectancy and Experimental Demand Characteristics

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