Brooks J, Ruble D, Clark A
Psychosom Med. 1977 Sep-Oct;39(5):288-98. doi: 10.1097/00006842-197709000-00002.
The present study examined college women's expectations, attitudes, and knowledge about menstrual-related changes in order to provide a more complete picture of how women perceive the experience of menstruation and to explore the interrelationships of these variables. The women responded to the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire as if they were premenstrual and as if they were intermenstrual in order to examine expectations about symptom changes for themselves. They also responded to a series of agree/disagree items, which yielded five dimensions of attitudes or styles of coping with menstruation. In general, the results suggested that these college women accepted menstruation rather routinely and did not perceive it as overly disruptive. Furthermore, it appears that beliefs about menstruation are more complex than previously thought, involving differential perceptions of physical versus psychological symptoms and a variety of dimensions of menstrual-related attitudes.
本研究调查了大学女生对月经相关变化的期望、态度和知识，以便更全面地了解女性如何看待月经经历，并探讨这些变量之间的相互关系。这些女性分别按照经前和经间期的情况填写了莫斯月经困扰问卷，以审视她们对自身症状变化的期望。她们还对一系列同意/不同意的项目做出了回应，这些项目产生了应对月经的五个态度维度或方式。总体而言，结果表明这些大学女生对月经的接受较为平常，并不认为它会造成过度干扰。此外，关于月经的观念似乎比之前认为的更为复杂，涉及对身体症状与心理症状的不同认知以及月经相关态度的多个维度。
