Survey study, 2020
Do personality traits affect premenstrual syndrome?
Yes. Two personality traits showed a relationship with PMS: honesty-humility and openness to experience. Honesty-humility and agreeableness could help predict PMS.
What they did
220 female university students answered questionnaires about their personality traits and PMS symptoms. Researchers looked for relationships between the two.
What they found
Honesty-humility had a correlation of 0.32 with PMS, and openness to experience had a correlation of 0.23. When predicting PMS, honesty-humility had a value of 0.37 and agreeableness was −0.14.
What it means for you
Personality traits might help explain who is at risk for PMS. The study was done at one university in Iran and measured personality and symptoms at one point in time, so we cannot say personality causes PMS.
220
Female students studied
0.32
Honesty-humility correlation with PMS
0.23
Openness to experience correlation with PMS
About the study
- Original title
- The relationship between personality characteristics and premenstrual syndrome in female students
- Authors
- Fateme Dehghan, Marzieh Kaboudi, Nasrin Rezaie Khosravi
- Journal
- Cogent Psychology
- Year
- 2020
- Study design
- Survey study
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2020.1835151
Original abstract
The relationship between personality characteristics and premenstrual syndrome has been considered by the researchers for a long time. The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between personality characteristics based on Hexaco six-factor model with symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic study. The statistical population consisted of female students in Kermanshah Medical Sciences University in the academic year 2017–2018. In a random sampling method based on the G-power software 220 ones were selected. The participants responded to Hexaco personality characteristics and premenstrual syndrome questionnaires. The correlation and multivariate regression tests were used for data analysis through SPSS-23 software. There was a significant relationship between personality characteristics of honesty-humility (0.32) and openness experience (0.23) with premenstrual syndrome (p < 0.01). Personality characteristic of honesty-humility (0.37) and agreeableness (−0.14) were predictive of premenstrual syndrome. The results of this study showed that personality factors can be considered as one of the predictors of premenstrual syndrome.
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