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VICTORIA GARCIA-VINIEGRAS, Carmen Regina  e  MAESTRE PORTA, Salud. Climacteric and psychological well-being . Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2003, vol.29, n.3. ISSN 0138-600X.

A review on the psychological well-being during the female climacteric and on the influence exerted on it by the neuroendocrine changes, the external and environmental factors and other group of internal factors, including personality, self-steem, the aspirations and abilities to face this stage of changes occurring in life, and the situations of stress, in general, was made. Some factors considered important as mediators of the psychological well-being in general, and in this stage of life, in particular, such as the family context, the habitual well-being level of the person and the cultural factors, were stressed. It was concluded that the causes of well-being in this period of transition in women's life are given by a complex interaction between objective and subjective factors.

Palavras-chave : CLIMATERIC [psychology]; MENOPAUSE [psychology]; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; WOMEN.