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title: Do psychological resilience and happiness help women cope better with PMS?
description: Yes. Psychological resilience and happiness both significantly influenced how women coped with PMS, with happiness having the strongest effect. These two fact
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/do-psychological-resilience-and-happiness-have-an-effect-on-coping-behaviors-2026/
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- Do psychological resilience and happiness help women cope better with PMS?

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# Do psychological resilience and happiness help women cope better with PMS?

Yes. Psychological resilience and happiness both significantly influenced how women coped with PMS, with happiness having the strongest effect. These two factors explained approximately 12% of the variation in coping behaviors.

 Early or limited evidence

187 female nursing students

## What they did

Cross-sectional study of 187 female nursing students. They used questionnaires to measure PMS coping behaviors, psychological resilience, and happiness.

## What they found

Psychological resilience and happiness significantly influenced coping behaviors with premenstrual changes. Together, these two factors explained approximately 12% of the variance in coping behaviors. Happiness, in particular, had a significant positive effect on coping with premenstrual changes.

## What it means for you

Women with greater happiness and resilience coped better with PMS. These factors explained 12% of coping ability. This is cross-sectional, so we cannot know if happiness helps coping or vice versa. The study included only nursing students, limiting how widely results apply.

187

nursing students studied

12%

variance in coping explained

positive

effect of happiness on coping

## About the study

Original title Do Psychological Resilience and Happiness Have an Effect on Coping Behaviors with Premenstrual Changes? A Cross-Sectional Study Authors Ayla Güllü Journal Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Dergisi Year 2026 Study design Survey study Participants 187 What was tested None. This was an observational study. Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.61535/bseusbfd.1698091](https://doi.org/10.61535/bseusbfd.1698091)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Psychotherapy, counselling and education](https://niyora.com/research/topics/treatment-psychotherapy/)[Students and academic performance](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-education/)

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