ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2018
Emotion-related impulsivity and rumination predict the perimenstrual severity and trajectory of symptoms in women with a menstrually related mood disorder.
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- Early Life Trauma, Emotion Dysregulation and Hormonal Sensitivity Across Female Reproductive Life Events.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Is trait rumination associated with affective reactivity to the menstrual cycle? A prospective analysis.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Effects of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on mood and cortisol in daily life in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Cyclical exacerbation of suicidal ideation in female outpatients: Prospective evidence from daily ratings in a transdiagnostic sample.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Associations of premenstrual symptoms with daily rumination and perceived stress and the moderating effects of mindfulness facets on symptom cyclicity in premenstrual syndrome.Archives of women's mental health · 2023Article
- Are there temporal subtypes of premenstrual dysphoric disorder?: using group-based trajectory modeling to identify individual differences in symptom change.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
- Ovarian Hormones as a Source of Fluctuating Biological Vulnerability in Borderline Personality Disorder.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- Premenstrual Disorders: A Primer and Research Agenda for Psychologists.The Clinical psychologist · 2019Article
- Perimenstrual exacerbation of symptoms in borderline personality disorder: evidence from multilevel models and the Carolina Premenstrual Assessment Scoring System.Psychological medicine · 2018Article
- Using natural spline models to explore the trajectories of empirically derived domains of premenstrual symptoms.Psychological assessmentArticle
- Effect of tACS on prefrontal neural activity is menstrual phase dependent in patients with premenstrual dysphoric disorder.Brain stimulationArticle
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objectiveWomen with menstrually related mood disorders (MRMDs) demonstrate clinically significant distress during the premenstrual week that remits with the onset of menses. Relatively little is known about psychosocial mechanisms of MRMDs. Given the core affective and behavioral symptoms of MRMDs, dysfunctional responses to emotion (e.g., difficulties with awareness and regulation of emotion; rumination and impulsive or maladaptive behavior in response to emotion) may be important factors to explore as cognitive and behavioral mechanisms in MRMDs. The purpose of the present study was to examine the associations of various dysfunctional responses to emotion (as measured using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale [DERS] and brooding on the Ruminative Responses Scale [RRS]) with premenstrual symptom severity and trajectory.
methodA total of 54 women (mean age = 38.11; 65% Caucasian) with prospectively confirmed MRMDs completed the DERS and RRS, and provided 2-4 menstrual cycles of daily symptom reports.
resultsOnly the emotion-related impulsivity subscale of the DERS was robustly associated with premenstrual symptom severity. Brooding rumination predicted a more rapid premenstrual increase and slower postmenstrual remission of some symptoms.
conclusionBoth rumination and emotion-related impulsivity may be important treatment targets in cognitive behavioral interventions aimed at reducing symptom severity and cyclicity in MRMDs.
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