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Direct and indirect effects of perceived social support on women's infertility-related stress

Author(s) -

Mariana V. Martins,

Brennan Peterson,

Válter Martins de Almeida,

Maria Emília Costa

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/der157

Subject(s) - infertility , social support , coping (psychology) , psychosocial , psychology , clinical psychology , avoidance coping , psychological intervention , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , pregnancy , genetics , statistics , mathematics , biology

Social support can be a critical component of how a woman adjusts to infertility, yet few studies have investigated its impact on infertility-related coping and stress. We examined relationships between social support contexts and infertility stress domains, and tested if they were mediated by infertility-related coping strategies in a sample of infertile women.

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