This study conducted a questionnaire survey on 317 female college students majoring in dance in order to inquire into dance majors’ attitude to menstruation and its influence on exercise-emotion, for which SPSS 15.0 was used. To verify the scales used in this study, the exploratory factor analysis was applied. In addition, the frequency analysis, the t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used in this study. In all the data, the significance level was defined as where the alpha-value equaled .05. The followings show the results of this study.
First, there was no significant corelation between attitude to menstruation and school year. Korean dance majors and ballet majors took a more positive attitude to menstruation as they tried to predict the date and planned ahead. Korean dance majors, ballet majors and modern dance majors were less affected by menstruation. Second, their attitude to menstruation was not influenced by the regularity of the menstrual cycle and the isochrony between menstruation and a dance performance. Respondents, who had experience in halting their menstruations or controlling menstrual cycles, tended to lose confidence and also to regard menstruation as troublesome. Third, attitude to menstruation was positively correlated with the subfactors of exercise-emotion. Fourth, the willingness to accept menstruation exerted positive influence on all the factors of exercise-emotion. The positive attitude to menstruation re-animated and refined exercise-emotion. Altogether, in the case of female college students majoring in dance, their attitude to menstruation slightly vary depending upon the major. Thus, there is a need to educate them on it and to modify related education programs in order that they can have positive attitudes to menstruation. In addition, there is a need of solutions to enhance their emotional stability and to inspire self-perception in order that they can show their abilities to the full.