Premenstruel Sendrom İle Ti̇p D Ki̇şi̇li̇k İli̇şki̇si̇

Abstract

Objective
 Type D personality, defined as the presence of two
 personality characters -negative affectivity (NA)
 and social inhibition (SI), is associated with various
 disorders. The aim of our study was to investigate
 the association between Type D personality and
 premenstruel syndrome (PMS).
 Material and Methods
 A total of 286 female (86 with PMS and 200 control)
 were recruited for the study. The mean age of the
 participants was 21.28 ± 0.12 years. Data were
 obtained from the Premenstrual Syndrome Scale,
 Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-21) and Type D
 Personality Scale (DS14). SPSS 22 (Statistical
 Package for Social Sciences) program was used to
 evaluate the data. Statistical significance level was
 accepted as p