Predicting Post-Traumatic Growth of Infertile Women based on Personality Traits, Mindfulness and Gender Role Attitudes

The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive role of personality traits, mindfulness and gender role attitudes on the post-traumatic growth of infertile women in Ahvaz. The research was a correlational study and the statistical population was all infertile women in Ahvaz who referred to the obstetrics and gynecology clinics of this city in 1400. The sample was 150 infertile women who were selected by available sampling method. The five-factor short form personality questionnaire of NEO (1992), Bem Gender Role questionnaire (1976), Baer et al (2006) Mindfulness questionnaire and Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996) post-traumatic growth questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22 software. The results of multiple regression analysis test showed that the neuroticism component was negative and the extroversion, agreeableness  components and Mindfulness were positive and significant in predicting post-traumatic growth. In addition, the results of one-way analysis of variance test showed that women with an androgynous gender role attitude had the highest post-traumatic growth and women with a female gender role attitude had the lowest growth. The traumatic experience of infertility can be turned into a growth experience by training of mindfulness and reducing the attitude of the traditional female gender role.