Comparison of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Well-being between Pregnant Women with Surrogacy, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and Natural Fertility

Infertility in women is a stressful experience and critical period. By losing the chance of pregnancy, women's levels of psychological distress, and anguish increases and their psychological well-being decreases. Perceived social support for women can be affected and change by infertility. The purpose of this research was to compare perceived social support and psychological well-being between pregnant women with surrogacy, assisted reproductive Technology(ART) and natural fertility in Isfahan.
The method of this research was ex post facto. Therefore 90 pregnant women with surrogacy, with ART were selected among referral women to Isfahan infertility clinics and pregnant women with natural Fertility were selected among the referral women to fertility clinic by Convenience sampling. These women responded to Mitchell and Zimeth's (2000) perceived social support scale and Ryff (1989) psychological well-being.
The results of MANOVA showed that there is a significant difference between methods of fertility in Perceived social support (important person and family) (p These results have important implications about these structures and importance of psychological interventions for fertile women with different ways.