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Attitudes Toward Menopause and Aging Across Ethnic/Racial Groups

Barbara Sommer, PhD, Nancy Avis, PhD, Peter Meyer, PhD, Marcia Ory, PhD, Tom Madden, MD, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, PhD, Charles Mouton, MD, Niki O’Neill Rasor, MA and Shelley Adler, PhD

From the Departments of Psychology (B.S.) and Epidemiology/Preventive Medicine (N.O.R.), University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; New England Research Institutes (N.A., Boston, MA); Department of Preventive Medicine (P.M., T.M.), Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Behavioral and Social Research Program (M.O.), National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; School of Public Health and Department of Asian American Studies (M.K.-S.), University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Family Practice (C.M.), University of Texas Health Center, San Antonio, TX; and Department of Medical Anthropology (S.A.), University of California, San Francisco, CA.



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  		Fig. 1. Attitude by menopausal status for each ethnic group, means adjusted for covariates (age, education, parity, site, acculturation, and dysphoric mood).

 


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  		Fig. 2. Degree of agreement and disagreement with aging items by ethnic group (means).

 


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  		Fig. 3. Degree of agreement and disagreement with affective items by ethnic group (means).

 


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  		Fig. 4. Degree of agreement and disagreement with freedom and regret items by ethnic group (means).

 




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