On Psychosomatic Problems of Young Women : Comparison with Their Mothers

The purpose of this study is to investigate young women\u27s psychosomatic problems, especially in comparison with their mothers. The present study has two main topics. One is how they felt when they had menarche, and the other is their menstrual distress. We administered a questionnaire to 252 junior college students and 143 of their mothers. We tried factor analysis to the data about feelings at menarche, and got 2 factors : we named them "mental restlessness" and "consciousness for social role". We took log-linear analysis to MDQ (Menstrual Distress Questionnaire) scores. The result shows that mother and daughter might have something in common in some menstrual distress symptoms during premenstrual or menstriual stage