Survey study, 2023
Does quality of life and thinking patterns affect how bad PMS is?
Yes. Women with better quality of life have less PMS. Women with more unhelpful thinking patterns have more PMS symptoms.
What they did
This cross-sectional study surveyed 400 married university students in Tehran during 2020-2021. Women completed questionnaires measuring PMS, quality of life, and thinking patterns. Researchers analyzed how these factors were related.
What they found
Better quality of life was related to fewer PMS symptoms. Better quality of life was also related to fewer unhelpful thinking patterns. The more unhelpful thinking patterns a woman had, the more PMS symptoms she had. The overall model fit the data well.
What it means for you
How a woman feels about her life and her thinking patterns may be connected to how severe her PMS is. However, we cannot tell from this study which came first. Poor quality of life could cause PMS, or PMS could cause poor quality of life. Also, the study was done in one university in one country.
400
Women surveyed in Tehran
About the study
- Original title
- Modeling Premenstrual Syndrome based on Quality of Life with the Mediating Role of Early Maladaptive Schemas
- Authors
- Maryam Alijani, Rasoul Roshan Chesli, Abolghasem Isamorad roodboneh et al.
- Journal
- Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling
- Year
- 2023
- Study design
- Survey study
- Participants
- 400
- What was tested
- None (observational study)
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.61838/kman.jarac.5.3.7
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