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A Study on Psychologic Factors of the Premenstrual Syndrome

Authors surveyed how the psychologic factors, especially the personality traits were related to the premenstrual syndrome, using PAF and MMPI, with 110 married nurses and 106 unmarried nursing students. The results were as follows : 1) There were no relations between the premenstrual syndrome and the demographic characteristics. 2) The high-scored types in PAF were turned out to be fatigue, lability, anxiety and atypical depressive features in rank order. On the contrary, the low-scored types in PAF were turned our to be increased well-being, hostility/anger, miscellaneous mood/behavior changes and impulsivity in rank order. 3) In the mean comparison of the MMPI scales among three clusters Pa, Pt and Sc scales showed statistically significant relations both in married and unmarried group, also D scale showed statistically significant relation in married group only and Hs, Ma scales showed statistically significant relation in unmarried group only. 4) In the mean comparison of the MPDS scales among three clusters BDL, ANT, CPS, PAG, PAR and STY scales showed statistically significant relations both in married and unmarried group, also DEP scale showed statistically significant relation in unmarried group only