Social and Psychological Consequences of Infertility among Women in Iran

The goal of this article is to study the social and psychological consequences of infertility among women, to determine the tension sources and the consequences of infertility among women, awareness of the couples about this problem, determining the psychological and social factors, determining competing strategies for the compatibility of the infertile women and their husbands with regards to this problem. The conceptual framework of the research will be designed with the use of social and psychological theories.A self-report questionnaire, applied in the survey form, was used to collect therequired data. The self-reported data was obtained through questionnaire from a sample of about 400 of the couples Fars and Yazd province (twoprovinces of Iran), who have referred to infertility centers in these provinces. One-way analysis of variance and matrix correlationwere the statistical techniques used in the data analysis. The findings show education of couples, cooperation among couples and the tolerance of difficulties help adaptation to this difficulty and solving the problems.