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title: Does job stress affect how much PMS women experience? | Niyora
description: Women who reported more job stress also reported more PMS symptoms. Painful periods, heavy menstrual bleeding, and job stress were all connected to worse PMS.
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/influence-of-health-promotion-behaviors-and-job-stress-on-premenstrual-syndrome-2018/
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Study, 2018

# Does job stress affect how much PMS women experience?

Women who reported more job stress also reported more PMS symptoms. Painful periods, heavy menstrual bleeding, and job stress were all connected to worse PMS.

 Moderate study design

226 female university students from three cities in Korea.

## What they did

Researchers surveyed 226 female university students from three cities in Korea. They used questionnaires to measure health-promoting behaviors, job stress, and PMS symptoms.

## What they found

Women who experienced more job stress reported more PMS symptoms. Having painful periods was connected to worse PMS. Having heavier menstrual bleeding was connected to worse PMS. Job stress was connected to worse PMS. The study showed a clear connection between job stress and PMS severity.

## What it means for you

Among these university students, job stress seems connected to how bad PMS symptoms are. Women facing job stress might experience worse PMS. This study shows these things go together but does not prove that stress causes PMS or that reducing stress will reduce PMS. Results come from young university students in Korea, so may not apply to older women, men, or women in other countries.

226

Female students studied

2.84

Average PMS severity score

2.66

Average job stress score

## About the study

Original title Influence of Health Promotion Behaviors and Job Stress on Premenstrual Syndrome in Female Undergraduate Students Authors Sunsook Baek, Mi-Seung Song, Juyeon Cho Journal Journal of the Korean society for Wellness Year 2018 Study design Study Read the paper [doi.org/10.21097/ksw.2018.08.13.3.411](https://doi.org/10.21097/ksw.2018.08.13.3.411)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Stress](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-stress/)[Students and academic performance](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-education/)

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