A Comparative Study of Psychological Well- being, Meta-emotion, and Resiliency in Fertile andInfertile Women

Background Aims of the Study: According to the high prevalence of mental problems of infertility in infertile women and the necessity of identifying their mental statuses to carry out interventions to help them, the present study aims a comparative study of psychological well-being, meta-emotion, and resiliency in fertile and infertile women. Materials Methods: This study is a A case-control study was conducted on infertile women who referred to health centers of Gonabad, Iran. The subjects are 80 infertile women and 80 fertile women selected via an available sampling method. Questionnaires of resiliency, psychological well-being, and meta-emotion were employed, and the data were analyzed by SPSS software and multivariate variance analysis test (MANOVA). Results: Significant differences were observed in terms of psychological wellbeing (p 0.01), positive meta-emotion (p 0.05), and resiliency (p 0.01). Conclusions: thus, infertile women showed lower level records than fertile women. Lower levels of psychological well-being, positive meta-emotion and resiliency in infertile women confirms the importance of attending to infertile women s mental health and emotional statuses even more.