Abstract

The purposes of the present study were to develop the scale of attitudes toward menstruation which is adequate to assessing the attitudes of women who live in the gender equality oriented modem society and to check any differences in the attitudes according to the increased years after menarche. There were 933 female participants who have passed at least 2 years after menarche but less than 32 years. The major findings were that the more increased years after menarche, the less negative attitudes toward menstruation, but there found no relations between the increased years after menarche and "symbol of femininity", one factor of the scale. The findings were discussed in the context of gender equality society as well as life-span development.