title: Emotion Dysregulation of Women with Premenstrual Syndrome.
abstract: The aim of the current study was to test whether women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) had difficulties in emotion regulation. In Study 1, we investigated the relationship between the habitual use of emotion-regulation strategies and the severity of PMS (n = 230). The results showed that the severity of PMS was negatively associated with the habitual use of reappraisal, but positively associated with the habitual use of suppression. In Study 2, we first investigated the difference in the spontaneous use of suppression versus reappraisal between women with (n = 42) and without PMS (n = 42) when watching sad film clips. Then we instructed some participants (PMS group = 20, healthy group = 21) to use reappraisal to regulate their emotions induced by a second sad film clip, and the other participants were asked to watch the second film clip freely (PMS group = 22, healthy group = 21). The results showed that there was no significant difference between participants with and without PMS in the self-reported spontaneous use of emotion-regulation strategies. For participants with PMS, increases in spontaneous suppression use were associated with increases in skin conductance level (SCL), while this association was not found among participants without PMS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
authors.forename: Mengying
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
authors.forename: Qingguo
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
authors.forename: Renlai
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006728:Hormones / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008597:Menstrual Cycle; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D057566:Self Report; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D006728:Hormones