Akhondi Mohammad Mehdi, Binaafar Sima, Ardakani Zohreh Behjati, Kamali Kourosh, Kosari Haleh, Ghorbani Behzad
Reproductive Biotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
J Reprod Infertil. 2013 Apr;14(2):90-3.
Infertility is one of the most difficult life experiences that a couple might encounter. Infertility as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon, could influence all aspects of life. While paying special attention to the psychological aspects of infertility in couples; many studies have investigated the non-clinical aspects of infertility, however, they rarely have evaluated the psychosocial development of infertile versus fertile men. We aimed to study the effects of infertility on psychosocial development in men.
In fact, we designed the study based on "Erikson's theory of psychosocial development". We focused on the relationship between psychosocial development and some self-conceived indices. For this purpose, we divided the participants volunteers into two groups of cases (80 infertile men) and controls (40 fertile men) and asked them to complete a 112 (questions questionnaire based on "self description"). The statistical analysis was performed by SPSS (version 13) using independent t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and analysis of covariance. A p-value <0.05 was considered significant.
Data analysis showed significant inter and intra group differences. Infertile and fertile groups showed significant differences in trust, autonomy, generativity and integrity stages (p < 0.05). Infertile intergroup analysis represents us to higher scores in positive than negative stages.
Infertility as a phenomenon had its own effects on the psychosocial development of infertile men. However, good coping skills are powerful tools to manage these myriad of feelings surrounding infertile men.
不孕不育是夫妻可能遭遇的最艰难的生活经历之一。不孕不育作为一种生物 - 心理 - 社会现象，会影响生活的方方面面。在特别关注不孕不育夫妻心理层面的同时，许多研究调查了不孕不育的非临床方面，然而，它们很少评估不孕男性与可育男性的心理社会发展情况。我们旨在研究不孕不育对男性心理社会发展的影响。
实际上，我们基于“埃里克森心理社会发展理论”设计了这项研究。我们关注心理社会发展与一些自我构想指标之间的关系。为此，我们将参与研究的志愿者分为两组，病例组（80名不孕男性）和对照组（40名可育男性），并要求他们完成一份基于“自我描述”的112题问卷。使用SPSS（版本13）通过独立样本t检验、皮尔逊相关系数和协方差分析进行统计分析。p值<0.05被认为具有统计学意义。
数据分析显示组间和组内存在显著差异。不孕组和可育组在信任、自主、繁衍和完整阶段存在显著差异（p < 0.05）。不孕组的组间分析表明，在积极阶段的得分高于消极阶段。
不孕不育作为一种现象，对不孕男性的心理社会发展有其自身的影响。然而，良好的应对技巧是管理围绕不孕男性的这些众多情绪的有力工具。
