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  • Title: [Sterility--a woman's concern? Coping behavior and partnership structure of sterile couples of various diagnostic groups].
    Author: Bernt H, Bernt WD, Tacke S.
    Journal: Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol; 1992 Jul; 42(7):236-41. PubMed ID: 1287692.
    Abstract:
    Three groups of sterile couples with functional, tubal and andrologically caused sterility were compared for the evaluation of sex- and diagnosis-dependent kinds of overcoming of their disease. Anamnestic data, anxiety, the coping strategy of sterility and as well the couple and personality structure are analysed. Independent of the organic cause of sterility the women showed a higher emotional reaction level (anxiety, coping stress) than their husbands. In all groups the "healthy" partners dominate. The subfertile men seem to be more subordinate, less engaged and interested and not so anxious as their wives and as the husbands of tubal sterile women. The healthy women with andrologically caused sterility present a highly emotional engagement in the overcoming and treatment of their disease. Possible emotional mechanisms and social stereotypes of self-presentation are discussed, which may cause the intense engagement of the women independent of the organic cause of sterility.
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