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Self-esteem and Depression in Fertile and Infertile Women


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1 Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
     

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Almost everybody wants to conceive as soon as they decide to begin their family life. The psychological desire to have children is satisfying experience and highly expected. The sample was collected from 180 infertile and 180 fertile women. Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, 1996) and Rosenberg Self-esteem Inventory (Rosenberg, 1965) were administered to assess the Depression and Self-esteem levels respectively. Results revealed that infertile women scored higher on Depression than fertile women and lower on Self-esteem than fertile women.

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infertile, depression, self-esteem, well-being, mental health
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Authors

Poonam Devi
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Sanjay Kumar
Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

Abstract


Almost everybody wants to conceive as soon as they decide to begin their family life. The psychological desire to have children is satisfying experience and highly expected. The sample was collected from 180 infertile and 180 fertile women. Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, 1996) and Rosenberg Self-esteem Inventory (Rosenberg, 1965) were administered to assess the Depression and Self-esteem levels respectively. Results revealed that infertile women scored higher on Depression than fertile women and lower on Self-esteem than fertile women.

Keywords


infertile, depression, self-esteem, well-being, mental health