Table 3.
Frequency of the reported emotions experienced at menarche by the respondents’ decade of birth
| Decade of Birth | Percentages (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joy* | Shame** | Fear** | Stress* | Pride* | Worry** | Sadness* | Disgust** | Frequency | |
| 1950s | 16.3 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 6.1 | 4.1 | 18.4 | 0 | 6.32 | 49 |
| 1960s | 7.4 | 28.4 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 6.8 | 20.5 | 2.3 | 6.3 | 176 |
| 1970s | 9.6 | 32.5 | 14.4 | 16.6 | 4.3 | 24.7 | 10.8 | 10 | 679 |
| 1980s | 9.6 | 36.2 | 20.6 | 19.9 | 5.1 | 27.6 | 11.5 | 11.6 | 1255 |
| 1990s | 9.7 | 36.2 | 30.3 | 26.4 | 5.3 | 35.3 | 12.8 | 16.3 | 1479 |
| 2000s | 9.4 | 33.8 | 32.7 | 29.6 | 5.2 | 37.4 | 13.1 | 20.7 | 382 |
| Average | 9.1 | 33.4 | 22.3 | 21.5 | 5.0 | 29.1 | 10.0 | 12.9 | |
| Std. Dev | 1.0 | 3.2 | 8.8 | 6.2 | 0.9 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 5.6 | |
| Total | 385 | 1394 | 959 | 898 | 206 | 1226 | 461 | 545 | 4028 |
Emotions with * showed a correlation with the information about what the bleeding was, and emotions with ** showed a correlation with the information on how to manage menstruation information