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Psychogenic factors in some genetic and non‐genetic forms of infertility
Author(s) -
Singh Jai Rup,
Neki J.S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(82)90022-4
Subject(s) - psychogenic disease , infertility , medicine , neuroticism , personality , clinical psychology , eysenck personality questionnaire , psychiatry , gynecology , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , genetics , psychology , pregnancy , social psychology , biology
Five categories of patients suffering from different genetic and non‐genetic forms of infertility and three categories of similarly affected, but potentially fertile, clinically normal individuals were studied. The Eysenck's Personality Inventory (1964), Ryle's Marital Patterns Test (1966) and Leckie and Withers' Inventory for Depressive Illness (1967) were used to determine the role played by psychogenic factors in causing infertility. No significant quantitative or qualitative differences were observed in the various groups studied. The psychogenic disturbances present in these individuals appear to be the result of the effect of persisting infertility rather than the cause of it.