title: Coping styles in women with premenstrual syndrome.
abstract: Sixty-five women with a prospectively confirmed diagnosis of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were subdivided on the basis of their scores on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) into high-depression and low-depression groups and compared with 49 non-PMS control women on self-administered measures of coping and anxiety. The high-depression PMS group was found to utilize significantly more avoidant coping styles in dealing with stressors independent of the premenstrual phase. Implications for treatment are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans 70112.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kuczmierczyk
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Labrum
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D004924:Escape Reaction; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales