Psychometric evaluation of the Menstrual Joy Questionnaire
K V Heard1, J C Chrisler, L A Kimes
1Connecticut College, USA. khea3028@postoffice.uri.edu
Psychological Reports
|April 16, 1999
Abstract:
Analysis of 10 terms in the Menstrual Joy Questionnaire of Delaney, Lupton, and Toth indicated that the 34 undergraduate students did not agree on the definitions of scale items. The authors discuss the use of this questionnaire as a stimulus in experimental research and as a measure of positive perimenstrual experience.
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