Background and Objective: Infertility is a stressful
experience for women which require high levels of emotional adjustment. The aim
of this study was to investigate the relationship between attachment styles and
ego-strength with adjustment to infertility in women.
Materials and Methods:
The design of the present study was descriptive. A total number of 346 women
referring to infertility clinic of Valie-asr Reproductive Health Research
Centre (Tehran Imam Khomeini Hospital) participated in the study. Data was
collected via demographic information questionnaire, Adult Attachment Inventory
(AAI), Ego-Strength Scale (ESS) and Adjustment to Illness Scale (AIS).
Results: There were
significant positive correlation between secure attachment style and adjustment
to infertility (r=0.12, p<0/05) and significant negative correlation between
adjustment to infertility and avoidant attachment style (r=-0.21, p<0/01)
and ambivalent attachment style (r=-0.37, p<0.01). There were also
significant positive correlation between ego-strength and adjustment to
infertility (r=0.41, p<0.01). Many of the treatments also had significant negative correlation with adjustment to
infertility (r= -0.35, p<0.01). In regression analysis, ego-strength,
ambivalent attachment style and number of the treatments predicted 35 percent
of the variance of adjustment to infertility.
Conclusion: These results can
be helpful in identifying the high risk patients and planning psychological
interventions.
Key words: Infertility, Attachment,
Ego-strength, Adjustment
Conflict of interest: None
declared.
Funding: No funding was
received for this study.
Ethical approval:
The Ethics committee of the faculty of educational sciences and
psychology of University of Tehran approved this study.
How to cite this article: Teimourpour N, Besharat
MA, Rahiminezhad A, Hossein Rashidi B, Gholamali Lavasani
M. Investigation
of the Relationship between Attachment Styles and Ego-Strength with Adjustment
to Infertility in Women Referring to Valie-Asr Reproductive
Health Research Centre (Tehran Imam Khomeini Hospital) in 2014. J RafsanjanUniv Med Sci 2015 14(1):
15-24. [Farsi]
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