Hafiza Neelam Younas2018-01-232018-01-232017https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2551Supervised by: Ms. Umaiza BashirThe current study is about a sensitive journey of women: Menopause and aimed for knowing the relationship between Personality, Coping and Psychosocial Problems of Women with Menopause (N=100), selected through snow ball sampling. The core objective was to measure the psychosocial problems, personality traits and coping strategies of those women who had reached to their menopause phase and developing distinct indigenous scale for these objectives via following four step model of scale development i.e. Exploring phenomenology, Expert validation, Pilot study and finally Main study. The measures of the current study comprised of Psychosocial Problems of Women with Menopause Scale (PSP-MP), Brief Cope Scale Urdu Version (B.Cope), Big Five Personality Inventory and a demographic Performa. The results revealed that women with neuroticism personality trait use ineffective coping strategies and are more likely to have psychosocial problems of menopause. Women with openness to experience personality trait use effective coping strategies and less vulnerable to psychosocial problems of menopause.enPsychosocial problems of menopauseExploring phenomenologyMS thesisThesis