Anxiety, aging, and reproductive aging: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study

Aging was significantly and negatively related to anxiety, phobic anxiety, and interpersonal sensitivity, suggesting emotion regulation effects during midlife. When chronological aging was taken into account, reproductive aging was associated significantly with increasing levels of phobic anxiety from the late reproductive stages to PM. Anxiety and interpersonal sensitivity both increased with progression from LRS1 through LMT before decreasing PM, but the changes were not significant.