Emotional Regulation in Adolescent Girls when Experiencing Menstrual Pain or Dysmenorrhea

Lestari Lestari,Dyah Siti Septiningsih

doi:10.30595/pssh.v2i.99

Abstract

The biological pride of young women is characterized by a standard physical mechanism of menstruation or menstruation followed by pain in the lower abdomen. The pain results in psychological symptoms such as anxiety, tension, anger, or emotion. Young women who cannot regulate their feelings properly are more likely to experience severe pain or so-called dysmenorrhea. Emotional regulation is the achievement of emotional balance performed by a person either from his attitude or behavior. This study aims to examine the regulation of emotions in young women who experience dysmenorrhea during menstruation. Assessment through aspects of emotional regulation, namely emotional regulation strategies, behaviors to achieve goals, control emotional responses, and acceptance of emotional responses. This research uses qualitative research methods with a case study approach. Data retrieval was conducted through semi-structured interviews of two primary informants and four secondary informants. Credibility using triangulation of sources and methods. Data analysis using interactive model data analysis. This study's findings are that both young women's ability to regulate their emotions during menstruation can relieve severe pain or dysmenorrhea during menstruation.

Highlights

Adolescence lasts between 12 years to 21 years for a woman and 13 years to 22 years
This study aims to examine the regulation of emotions in young women who experience dysmenorrhea during menstruation
This study's findings are that both young women's ability to regulate their emotions during menstruation can relieve severe pain or dysmenorrhea during menstruation

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Introduction

The adolescent phase is a significant segment of individual development that begins with the maturity of physical organs (sexual) to reproduce typical biological changes in teenage boys and girls. Menstruation is the decay of the uterine wall consisting of blood and body tissues; the event occurs every month and is standard for ordinary women (Saryono, 2010). Menstruation is the release of the uterine wall accompanied by bleeding that repeatedly happens every month except during pregnancy; this condition is physiological or normal in the female body and occurs periodically and is affected by reproductive hormones (Asrina, 2011). Menstruation itself raises questions in the minds of teenage girls. They are unable to cope with the change; both changes bring problems that will give rise to an emotion. What young women experience during menstruation is menstrual pain, or in medical terms called dysmenorrhea (Aden, 2010)

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