title: Psychobiological profiles in infertile men.
abstract: To investigate the psychosomatic impact in male infertility, we analysed relationships among psychological (life events, personality attitudes) and biological (gonadotrophins, sex steroids, seminal parameters) variables in 101 husbands of barren couples. In patients with subnormal fertility parameters, personality attitudes were not different from those of a reference group of the questionnaire (FAPK) used in this study. However, patients with high scores on test scales such as regression, hypochondria, or emotional vacuity showed better fertility characteristics. These results agree with previously reported data, suggesting that social assertiveness and extraversion but not introversion and depression are associated with male infertility.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001242:Assertiveness; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D008016:Life Change Events; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013076:Sperm Count
chemical_list: D004958:Estradiol; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone