Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation: Risk Factor for Fertility Quality of Life among Infertile Women: A Cross-sectional Study
Anupriya, Aatika Siddiqui, Swaran Lata
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BSTRACT
Background:
Infertility poses considerable emotional and social challenges and is associated with reduced quality of life among women. The experience of infertility can evoke a range of emotional responses, including stress, anxiety and feelings of loss, which leads to psychological distress, making cognitive-emotion regulation a crucial factor to assess and substantiate its interwoven nature.
Aim:
This study aims to explore this intricate display of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) with fertility quality of life (FQoL) among women suffering from infertility.
Settings and Design:
The present study employed a cross-sectional, correlational research design. Purposive sampling recruited 103 women aged 20–40 years from two different fertility clinics.
Materials and Methods:
Participants were assessed with a sociodemographic sheet, the CER Questionnaire and the Hindi FertiQoL Scale.
Statistical Analysis Used:
The relationships between the variables were explored using descriptive statistics, correlational analysis and hierarchical regression.
Results:
The findings indicate that FQoL is significantly negatively associated with self-blame and overall maladaptive CER (M-CER) and positively associated with refocus on planning. In hierarchical regression, refocus on planning was added as an adaptive strategy and showed a positive trend in predicting FQoL (β =0.194,
Conclusion:
These findings highlight the necessity for focused psychological interventions that assist infertile women in recognising and reducing M-CER strategies while promoting adaptive regulation.