Violence against Infertility, Self-Esteem and Psychological Distress in women having Infertility

Abstract

The current study aims to investigate the relationship amongst violence against infertility, self-esteem, and psychological distress in women having infertility, and to ascertain the mediation effect of self-esteem between Violence against infertility and Psychological Distress. A purposive sampling strategy was used to collect a sample of 110 women having primary and secondary infertility. Infertile Women’s Exposure to Violence Determination Scale (Onat, 2014) was used to access Violence Against infertility, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, (Rosenberg, 1965) was used to measure the level of self-esteem and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (Kessler et al., 2002) used to access psychological distress. The correlation was found through Product Moment Correlation Analysis and mediation was run using PROCESS (Hayes, 2013). The finding of the study suggested that violence against infertility was positively correlated with psychological distress and negatively correlated with Self-Esteem. A significant negative relationship was also found between psychological distress and self-esteem. self-esteem has asignificant mediating effect onthe relationship between violence against infertility and psychological distress. This study can help health practitioners and psychologists to work on mental health of women having infertility to decrease the impact of violence and psychological distress