A Comparative Study of Psychological Well- being, Meta-emotion, and Resiliency in Fertile and Infertile Women

Background & Aims of the Study: According to the high prevalence of mentalproblems of infertility in infertile women and the necessity of identifying theirmental statuses to carry out interventions to help them, the present study aims acomparative study of psychological well-being, meta-emotion, and resiliency infertile and infertile women.Materials & Methods: This study is a A case-control study was conducted oninfertile women who referred to health centers of Gonabad, Iran. The subjects are80 infertile women and 80 fertile women selected via an available samplingmethod. Questionnaires of resiliency, psychological well-being, and meta-emotionwere employed, and the data were analyzed by SPSS software and multivariatevariance analysis test (MANOVA).Results: Significant differences were observed in terms of psychological well-being (p<0.01), positive meta-emotion (p<0.05). and resiliency (p<0.01).Conclusions: thus, infertile women showed lower level records than fertilewomen. Lower levels of psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion andresiliency in infertile women confirms the importance of attending to infertilewomen’s mental health and emotional statuses even more.

کلیدواژه ها:

InfertilityMeta-emotion ، Psychologicalwell-beingResiliency