The Psychosocial Aspect of Infertility

Abstract

For both partners, infertility is a complex and situational crisis that is generically psychologically threatening, emotionally stressful, financially challenging, and physically painful most of the times due to diagnostic-curative operations undergone. Infertility triggers a range of physical, psychological, social, emotional, and financial effects. Although it is not a life-threatening problem, infertility is yet experienced as a stressful life event for couples or individuals due to the exalted value attributed to having a child by individuals themselves or society in general. Infertile couples are not facing a medical condition alone but coping with a number of emotional states as well. Emotions, thoughts, and beliefs of infertile couples frequently change as one consequence of infertility diagnosis. Exposed to a tremendous social pressure, infertile couples may resort to hiding the problem due to the extreme privacy of the matter. Infertility also affects marriage life adversely.

Identification of associated risk factors for the severity of generalized anxiety disorder among Iranian infertile people: An ordinal regression analysis with a flexible link function

“…A similar result was reached by Dhaliwal et al [28] An explanation for this might be that a diagnosis of infertility problem in a man or woman may lead them to feel lacking in self-confidence, and feeling worthless as a spouse, and fear of being abandoned by her/his partner and being alone. [35]…”

Hubungan Self-compassion dengan Infertility-related stress pada dewasa awal yang mengalami infertilitas

“…Infertilitas bukan hanya masalah medis yang dapat memengaruhi individu dan pernikahan mereka tapi juga dapat menyebabkan psychological crisis (Chehreh, Ozgoli, Abolmaali, Nasiri & Mazaheri, 2019). Pasangan atau individu yang mengalami infertilitas menunjukkan masalah psikologis seperti kecemasan, depresi, perasaan bersalah, ketakutan, kehilangan status sosial, putus asa, social labelling dan stres (Hocaoglu, 2018) Self-compassion merupakan salah satu cara mengasihi diri sendiri yang membuat individu mampu bertahan, memahami, menyadari, dan memaknai makna dari sebuah kegagalan atau kesulitan sebagai suatu hal yang positif (Hidayati, 2015). Selfcompassion mengacu pada proses pengaturan diri dalam mengatasi stres yang melibatkan identifikasi, pemahaman, dan mengekspresikan emosi dengan cara yang adaptif (Neff, 2003b).…”

“…Namun, pada penelitian ini ditemukan pada durasi lebih dari 11 tahun mengalami penurunan tingkat infertilityrelated stress dalam kategori sedang dan tinggi. Penurunan tingkat infertility-related stress yang dirasakan oleh individu dengan bertambahnya usia maupun durasi menunggu anak dikarenakan individu tersebut telah memasuki tahap terakhir dari psychological stages of infertility yaitu resolution (Hocaoglu, 2018). Pada tahap ini, perasaan infertility-related stress yang individu rasakan dikenali, dilewati, dan diatasi.…”

An Epistemological Perspective of Integrated Multidisciplinary Treatment When Dealing With Infertile Women With a Parenthood Goal: The Importance of Matterpsychic Perspective

“…As anticipated, this article aims to offer a contribution to the formulation of an articulated answer to the question. With this objective, we intend to draw the attention to the socio-anthropological aspects of the problem ( Khetarpal and Singh, 2012 ; Hocaoglu, 2018 ; Vasta, 2020a ).…”