title: The modal study on premenstrual syndrome or tension: a content analysis of 315 recent abstracts along global dimensions.
abstract: From 315 abstracts from Psychological Abstracts (January 1990-February 1996), the modal current study dealing with premenstrual syndrome or tension has a within-subjects design and includes 20 to 80 nonpathological subjects. Conclusions based on prospective self-reports are that negative psychological and somatic ratings increase premenstrually or menstrually and that changes are more pronounced (and scores higher) for groups who are identified with symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Whissell
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011599:Psychopathology