SOCIAL SUPPORT FERTILITY EXPECTATION AND STRESS OF INFERTILE PERSON

Abstract

Objectives of this study were: 1. To study the level of social support expectations of having children and the stress of infertile people; 2. To study the influence of personal factors and social support on the expectation of having children. 3. The stress of infertile people, and 4. I was examining the relationship between childbearing expectations and the stress of infertile people. It was survey research. The samples were 230 infertile persons receiving services from Infertility Clinics. The data were collected by using questionnaires, and the data was analyzed using a statistical package program. Multiple regression analysis to find the relationship between the dependent variable and two or more independent variables.

The research results were as follows: 1. Infertile people had a high level of support from society. There was a high level of expectation for having children. And the stress of infertile people was at a moderate level. 2. Personal factors of gender, family characteristics, child waiting period, and the number of times to see doctors, including support from different societies, influenced the childbearing expectations of infertile people. 3. Personal factors regarding family characteristics and the number of times to see doctors, Including social support in terms of resources and emotions that were different, influenced the stress of infertile people differently; 4. The hope of having children was related to the stress of infertile people positively and significantly by social aspect, the relationship aspect between married couples, the aspect of rejecting the childless lifestyle, the aspect of the need to be a father and mother, and the aspect of sexual relations.