The Study of Relationship between Marital Burnout with Religiosity and Resilient in Infertile and Fertile Women

Document Type : 78

Authors

• samane behzadpour
• maryam vakili
• zahrasadat motaheri
• Faramarz Sohrabi

Abstract

Background and Objective: experiencing infertility can have a negative effect on relationships between couples. According to research reports, some features may help to people in dealing with marital problems that have been less studied in infertile women. So the aim of the present research was to compare marital burnout in infertile women and fertile women, to study the relationship between marital burnout with religiosity and resilience in fertile and infertile women and to predict marital burnout through religiosity and resilient.
Methods: Method of this research was ex post facto and correlation. The statistical population of the present research comprised fertile and infertile women referred to Infertility Centers and gynecologists' private offices in Tehran in 2012. The research sample consisted of 100 infertile and 100 fertile women who were selected by available sampling method. Pines Marital Burnout Scale, Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale and religiosity assessment scale were used to gather data. Data analysis was carried out by SPSS software (version 16) using t-tests, Multivariable regression analyses and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: The results indicated that infertile women experienced higher levels of marital burnout compared to fertile cases (p> 0.01). There was a negative correlation between religiosity and resilience with marital burnout in infertile women (p<0.05). Also there was a negative relationship between religiosity and marital burnout in fertile women but no relationship between resilience and marital burnout was found in fertile women.  The results of multiple regression analyses in the scores of infertile women indicated that religiosity and resilience can predict marital burnout inversely (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Based on these results it can be concluded that infertility affect marital burnout. Also the level of religiosity and resilience can reduce marital burnout in infertile women. Resilience components training and emphasis on increasing religiosity can help to reduce marital burnout.

Keywords

• Burnout
• religiosity
• Psychological resilience

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