title: Analysis of the attitudes and emotional processes in couples undergoing artificial insemination by donor.
abstract: Osgood's Semantic Differential Questionnaire was used to study 40 couples undergoing an artificial insemination by donor (AID) programme. The following reference concepts were used: Father, Mother, Work, Marriage, Myself, Children, Pregnancy, Guilt, Sex and Family. The results show that women consider ¿being a Mother' as something emotionally ¿warm', take a positive position, feel ¿nervous' and wish the event happened quickly; this is significantly different to men, who give less importance to this fact. Men are more concerned about the pregnancy and consider it a ¿hard', ¿strong' and ¿heavy' experience. The score in the concept Guilt significantly stands out from the rest of the concepts in both men and women; it is also striking how AID women relate the concept Mother with the concept Father, whereas men establish the association between Mother and Work.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rojo-Moreno
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valdemoro
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: García-Merita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tortajada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D012659:Semantic Differential; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires