Mansfield P K, Hood K E, Henderson J
Department of Health Education, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University, University Park 16802.
Psychosom Med. 1989 Jan-Feb;51(1):66-80. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198901000-00007.
This study examined the relationship between biological (menstrual cycle) and social-contextual (day of the week) factors and psychological and physical events among nine women and their spouses. Employing P-technique factor analysis to identify consistent patterns in single-subject data over 90 days of reporting, two factors emerged: Negative Mood and Arousal. When these factors were compared over five phases of each woman's menstrual cycle, the only significant finding was that men's Arousal scores were significantly greater during their wives' menses phase compared to their follicular phase. Negative Moods decreased on weekends for both males and females, and females also showed a decline in Arousal on the weekend. The finding that our social factor (day of the week) accounted for more variability in subjects' reports than did our biological factor (the menstrual cycle) emphasizes the importance of considering biological events in the context of social structures and belief systems.
本研究调查了9名女性及其配偶的生物因素（月经周期）和社会环境因素（星期几）与心理和身体事件之间的关系。采用P技术因子分析来识别90天报告期内单主体数据中的一致模式，得出了两个因子：消极情绪和唤醒。当在每位女性月经周期的五个阶段对这些因子进行比较时，唯一显著的发现是，与卵泡期相比，男性在其妻子月经期的唤醒得分显著更高。男性和女性的消极情绪在周末都会降低，并且女性在周末的唤醒水平也会下降。我们的社会因素（星期几）比生物因素（月经周期）在受试者报告中解释了更多变异性，这一发现强调了在社会结构和信仰体系背景下考虑生物事件的重要性。
