title: Perimenstrual symptoms: relationships with chronic stress and selected lifestyle variables.
abstract: Of primary interest in the present study was the assessment of the association between several contextual factors, including chronic stress, exercise, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine intake, and the self-report of perimenstrual symptoms. Two hundred and eleven women completed questionnaires designed to assess chronic stress, perimenstrual symptoms, and physical health. The results indicated that stress accounted for a significant amount of the variance in perimenstrual symptoms. Stress, however, accounted for a substantially greater amount of variance in scores on a general health measure than in self-reports of perimenstrual symptoms. Of those lifestyle variables assessed, only duration of current level of strenuous exercise was associated with perimenstrual symptoms to a meaningful extent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gannon
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Luchetta
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pardie
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rhodes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008597:Menstrual Cycle; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*