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GAION, Patrícia Aparecida. Study of the association between Premenstrual Syndrome,
Personality and Sport Performance. 2008. 158f. Dissertation (Master Degree in Physical
Education) – Health Science Center. State University of Maringá, Maringá, 2008.
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the association between Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (SPM),
personality characteristics, mood state profile and perceived impact of pre-menstrual
syndrome symptoms on sport performance. Were part of the study 25 athletes from
different sport modalities, with ages varying from 18 to 49 years old, connected to the
Sport Secretariat from de City of Maringá/PR. The instruments used were: athlete
identification sheet, the SPM`s diagnostic sheet, perceived SPM`s symptoms impact on
sport performance sheet, Factorial Personality Inventory (IFP), Profile of Mood States
(POMS) and a SPM`s symptoms diary, being that the last two were answered during two
menstrual cycles. For the data analysis were used the tests: Shapiro-Wilk, Mann-
Whitney, Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis and the exact of Fisher, adopting P<0,05. It was
verified that the SPM prevalence estimated retrospectively was higher than the one
estimated through daily following, being that both were considered high. Significant
associations were found between SPM and the weekly training volume, number of
symptoms, physical symptoms, breast pain and abdominal discomfort. The athletes with
SPM differed from the athletes without SPM by high need of performance, low need of
assistance and intraception, and high need of change, as the athletes without SPM
differed by very high need of assistance and high need of dominance, denegation and
persistence. There were significant association between denegation (low need) and
SPM. The athletes with SPM presented Menstrual Cycle`s (CM) last day values higher
than those from the athletes without SPM for the fatigue, anger and confusion
dimensions. The athletes without SPM presented a decrease on confusion dimension
from the 7º day to the last week of the CM and the athletes with SPM had a decrease on
vigor dimension from the last week to the last day of the CM. The athletes without SPM
did not present the iceberg profile in none of the days due to the low level of vigor
dimension and the athletes with SPM did not present iceberg profile mainly on the pre-
menstrual and menstrual, due to high scores on fatigue and anger dimensions and low
scores on vigor dimension. Most part of the athletes (80%) informed an impact of SPM
symptoms on sport performance, being that most of them felt more affected in training
than in competition. Significant association was found between perceived impact of
syndrome`s symptoms on sport performance during training and SPM estimated
retrospectively and perceived impact of syndrome`s symptoms on sport performance
during competitions with SPM estimated by dairies, week training volume, isolation,
breast pain. The athletes who perceived impact of pre-menstrual syndrome symptoms
on sport performance showed higher need of heterosexuality and performance. So it is
concluded that SPM awake primary needs (pain, sickness) in athletes that, when
exposed to pressure environments (competitions), have conflicts with secondary needs