Abstract

Young women in India report that avoidant talk within families hinders their ability to communicate about menstruation, further promoting stigma and limiting knowledge. Participants included 287 college-attending women from one of two colleges in different locations in northern India. Participants completed surveys that were guided by the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) and asked about menstruation-related topic avoidance with mothers. Results find that the stigma of being dramatic is a consistent predictor across the two locations but that predictors otherwise differ. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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