title: Relationship between infertility-related stress and emotional distress and marital satisfaction.
abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive effects of infertility-related stress on psychological distress and marital satisfaction. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate a nonrecursive model hypothesizing the impact of infertility-related stress on both emotional distress and marital dissatisfaction, which were supposed to have a reciprocal influence on each other. The model was estimated using data from a sample of 150 infertile patients (78 males and 72 females). Findings confirmed the predictive effects of infertility-related stress on both emotional and marital distress. However, infertility-related stress was found to have more impact on emotional distress than on marital satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: University of Bordeaux, France kamel.gana@u-bordeaux2.fr.
authors.forename: Kamel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gana
authors.affiliation: University of Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: Sylwia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jakubowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: distress; infertility; infertility-related stress; marital satisfaction; stress