Psychosocial correlates of premenstrual dysphoric subtypes
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L N Rosen1, L Z Moghadam, J Endicott
1Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
A modified version of the Premenstrual Assessment Form (PAF) was administered to 737 military wives as part of a study of stress and well being. A factor analysis of the responses suggests three main subtypes of premenstrual change--hostile depressive, atypical depressive, and anxious--as well as two minor subtypes--organic and hypomanic. Demographic and psychosocial correlates of factor scores are discussed.