caa a22 4500 445818123 CHVBK 20180317145235.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10815-011-9637-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10815-011-9637-2 Resilience in infertile couples acts as a protective factor against infertility-specific distress and impaired quality of life [Elektronische Daten] [Darja Herrmann, Horst Scherg, Rolf Verres, Cornelia von Hagens, Thomas Strowitzki, Tewes Wischmann] Objective: Our hypothesis was that resilience (=psychosocial stress-resistance) reduces infertility-specific distress and maintains quality of life of infertile couples. Methods: Questionnaire data of WHO Quality of Life assessment (WHOQOL; domains: ‘physical', ‘psychological', ‘social relationships' and ‘environment'), Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI; scales: ‘social concern', ‘sexual concern', ‘relationship concern', ‘rejection of childfree lifestyle' and ‘need for parenthood'), Resilience Scale (RS), as well as sociographic and medical data were available for 199 infertile couples. Results: Age, medical diagnosis and ‘intensity of desire for a child' had no influence on quality of life. High scores on ‘suffering from childlessness' went along with less satisfaction on ‘physical' and ‘psychological' domains for the women only. For both partners, high scores on ‘suffering from childlessness' went along with higher scores on all FPI scales. High resilience was associated with high scores on all WHOQOL domains for both partners, also with low scores on all FPI scales except for ‘need for parenthood' for the women and with a low score only on 'relationship concern' for the men. Conclusions: For infertile couples, resilience can be considered as an unspecific protective factor against infertility-specific distress and impaired quality of life. When offering counselling to involuntarily childless couples, awareness should be raised for resilience as a couple's resource and a "generic” factor of coping. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Psychological factors nationallicence Infertility-specific distress nationallicence Resilience nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence Infertility nationallicence Protective factor nationallicence Herrmann Darja Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut Scherg Horst Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut Verres Rolf Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut von Hagens Cornelia Department of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Women's Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany aut Strowitzki Thomas Department of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Women's Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany aut Wischmann Tewes Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/11(2011-11-01), 1111-1117 1058-0468 28:11<1111 2011 28 10815 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-011-9637-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-011-9637-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Herrmann Darja Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scherg Horst Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Verres Rolf Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- von Hagens Cornelia Department of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Women's Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Strowitzki Thomas Department of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Women's Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wischmann Tewes Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/11(2011-11-01), 1111-1117 1058-0468 28:11<1111 2011 28 10815 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer