Detailed Information on Publication Record
2022
Behavioral fluctuation during the menstrual cycle
KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, EvaBasic information
Original name
Behavioral fluctuation during the menstrual cycle
Authors
Edition
CES 2022 (Cultural Evolution Society), 21-23 September 2022, Aarhus, Denmark, 2022
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher
Denmark
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)
menstrual cycle; ritualized behavior; anxiety
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 25/1/2023 18:53, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová
Abstract
V originále
Previous research suggested changes in anxiety and mood connected with fluctuations of progesterone during menstrual cycle. These fluctuations could in turn lead to behavioral patterns connected to heightened states of anxiety. For example, in humans and non-human animals, ritualized behavior has been linked to states of intense stress and anxiety in a range of studies. In a pre-registered (osf.io/fq7sm) longitudinal study (36 days), free-cycling female participants regularly marked their day of the cycle, symptoms connected with the menstrual cycle, levels of anxiety, and activities they performed. These activities were evaluated by independent coders on the characteristics of ritualized behavior. The main prediction of the study were that psychological changes, specifically heightened anxiety, and perceived stress during the luteal phase, would lead to both an increase in the types of ritualized behaviors and higher intensity of those behaviors. We have not observed any differences in anxiety or stress between luteal and follicular phases, but higher anxiety (independent from phase) was positively correlated with more ritualized behaviors.
Links
| MUNI/A/1435/2021, interní kód MU |
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