Page No.329-336
Hardeep Lal Joshi, Rohtash Singh and Bindu
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
Infertility among women is associated with a large number of psychological
problems. The women suffering from infertility underwent severe psychological
distress, use various coping mechanisms to improve their overall quality of life.
The present investigation was planned to study psychological distress, coping
resources and subjective well-being among infertile women in comparison to normal
women. The sample for the study consisted of 200 women (100 infertile and 100
normal) The sample was assessed with Subjective Wellbeing Inventory, Coping
Resources Index, and General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). Data were
processed for Discriminant Analysis. When compared, results clearly demonstrated
poor subjective well-being, high level of psychological distress, and inappropriate
coping among infertile women as compared to their normal counterparts.
Discriminant Analysis clearly revealed a linear combination of five aspects of
subjective well-being which account for considerable degree of variation between
infertile and normal women groups