Reproductive Biotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Background: 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. Methods: 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
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Akhondi, M. M., Binaafar, S., Behjati Ardakani, Z., Kamali, K., Kosari, H., & Ghorbani, B. (2013). Aspects of Psychosocial Development in Infertile Versus Fertile Men. Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, 14(2), 90-93.
MLA
Akhondi, M. M., Binaafar, S., Behjati Ardakani, Z., Kamali, K., Kosari, H., & Ghorbani, B. "Aspects of Psychosocial Development in Infertile Versus Fertile Men", Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, 14, 2, 2013, 90-93.
HARVARD
Akhondi M. M., Binaafar S., Behjati Ardakani Z., Kamali K., Kosari H., Ghorbani B. (2013). 'Aspects of Psychosocial Development in Infertile Versus Fertile Men', Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, 14(2), pp. 90-93.
CHICAGO
M. M. Akhondi, S. Binaafar, Z. Behjati Ardakani, K. Kamali, H. Kosari & B. Ghorbani, "Aspects of Psychosocial Development in Infertile Versus Fertile Men," Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, 14 2 (2013): 90-93,
VANCOUVER
Akhondi M. M., Binaafar S., Behjati Ardakani Z., Kamali K., Kosari H., Ghorbani B. Aspects of Psychosocial Development in Infertile Versus Fertile Men. JRI. 2013;14(2):90-93.
