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Psychosomatic Medicine 36:229-240 (1974)
© 1974 American Psychosomatic Society

Stereotypic Beliefs about Menstruation: A Methodological Note on the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire and Some New Data

MARY BROWN PARLEE PHD1

1 Social Problems Research Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 and the Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Address for reprint requests: Mary Brown Parlee, PhD, Radcliffe Institute, 3 James Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

The methodological soundness of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) is considered. New data are presented which show that male (N = 34) and female (N = 25) subjects report very similar patterns of symptoms and symptom "changes" when asked to indicate on the MDQ what women experience during the menstrual cycle. When the symptom scales on the MDQ are rank ordered according to the size of the "changes"--differences from intermenstrual phase--reported during the premenstrual and menstrual phases, the rankings of the female and male subjects are highly correlated (r=0.88 for both menstrual and premenstrual "changes"). While Moos has interpreted women's responses on the MDQ as evidence of "premenstrual tension" or "premenstrual syndromes," results of the present study suggest an alternative interpretation in terms of stereotypic beliefs about the psychological concomitants of menstruation.

Submitted on August 8, 1973
Revised on November 29, 1973




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