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Psychosomatic Medicine 36:321-326 (1974)
© 1974 American Psychosomatic Society

Menarcheal Age and Personality: The Choice of a Statistical Test of Relationship

RICHARD I. SHADER MD1, JEROLD S. HARMATZ 1, and HEDY-ANN TAMMERK 1

1 Psychopharmacology Laboratory at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts

Psychosomatic studies relying upon correlational statistics or assumptions of linearity may be difficult to interpret. For instance, the relationship of menarcheal age to personality may best be conceptualized according to an arbitrary classification which permits an analysis of variance. Although interesting differences were evidenced between particular study groups, in three purportedly similar samples of young women, no consistent relationship was found between menarcheal age and selected personality measures.

Submitted on October 29, 1973
Revised on January 11, 1974






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