ARE MALES AWARE OF THEIR PARTNERS PREMENSTRUAL EXPERIENCES

A sample of 46 females and their partners were used to investigate if males were aware of their partner's premenstrual experiences. Hotellin g's T2 revealed that males' perceptions of their partner's premenstrua l experiences did not differ from their partner's reports for the numb er and the extent of affective and behavioural premenstrual changes. H owever, their perceptions of their partner's somatic premenstrual expe riences differed significantly from the female's experience for the nu mber and the extent of changes labelled Water Retention.