REVIEW ARTICLE
Psychological Distress and Coping Mechanisms in Infertile Couples
Norbert Pásztor1, *, Borbála Eszter Hegyi1, Edina Dombi1, Gábor Németh1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 12
First Page: 169
Last Page: 173
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-12-169
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101912010169
Article History:
Received Date: 31/03/2019Revision Received Date: 30/07/2019
Acceptance Date: 24/08/2019
Electronic publication date: 30/09/2019
Collection year: 2019
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Abstract
Numerous motivational and strong emotional intentions can be found in the background of the desire for a child. Hence unintended childlessness gives rise to a severe psychological burden to both members of the couple. In the literature, several studies are involved in the exploration of this subject, albeit most of them bring into focus the differences of psychological liabilities between the genders. A smaller proportion of these papers examined the psychological aspects affecting couples, and just a very small number of studies investigated the psychological aspects in men. Nevertheless, most of the studies proved that although the psychological aspects in women can be more significant compared to their partner, the psychological burden of infertile men are obviously above the population average. Several different, gender-specific coping-mechanisms have been identified, which tend to be less successful in men compared to women. The acquirement of proper coping mechanisms could be more emphasized during the psychotherapeutic part of reproductive treatment.