Foresti G, Ferraro M, Reithaar P, Berlanda C, Volpi M, Drago D, Cerutti R
Psychother Psychosom. 1981;36(1):37-42. doi: 10.1159/000287524.
Five specific personality traits (emotivity, acceptance of sexual role, parental aptness, anxiety and depression) have been analyzed for this study of the premenstrual syndrome (PMS), conducted on a group of 110 women in advanced (8th month) pregnancy. The comparison of the results from the personality tests and from the overall assessment of the PMS (82%) establishes definite correlations between the syndrome's intensity and the tendency toward a pathologic personality. A further correlation of each personality trait and of the PMS shows that the greater deviation from normalcy affects not only those women who suffer from a severe PMS, but also those who complain of no premenstrual symptoms at all. Such a finding (as shown in the results of a separate previous study by our group) allows to conclude that a psychological normalcy or balance finds its equivalent in an absence, but more often in a scarce presence of premenstrual complaints, while an absolute absence or a very marked intensity of these complaints should correspond to the more extreme degrees of personality disturbance.
本研究针对110名孕晚期（第8个月）女性的经前综合征（PMS），分析了五种特定的人格特质（情绪性、对性别角色的接受度、为人父母的适宜性、焦虑和抑郁）。人格测试结果与PMS总体评估结果（82%）的比较确定了该综合征强度与病理性人格倾向之间存在明确关联。对每个人格特质与PMS的进一步关联分析表明，与正常状态的更大偏差不仅影响那些患有严重PMS的女性，也影响那些根本没有经前症状抱怨的女性。这样的发现（如我们小组之前一项单独研究的结果所示）可以得出结论，心理正常或平衡等同于没有经前不适，但更常见的是经前不适很少，而这些不适完全没有或非常明显则应对应于人格障碍的更极端程度。
