TY - JOUR T1 - Aspects of Psychosocial Development in Infertile Versus Fertile Men T2 - Journal of Reproduction & Infertility JT - Journal of Reproduction & Infertility SP - 90 EP - 94 VL - 14 IS - 2 PY - 2013 SN - 2251-676X L1 - https://www.jri.ir/documents/fullpaper/en/530.pdf L2 - https://www.jri.ir/article/530 UR - https://www.jri.ir/en/currentissue.aspx?id=55 PB - Avicenna Research Institute AU - Akhondi, Mohammad Mehdi AU - Binaafar, Sima AU - Behjati Ardakani, Zohreh AU - Kamali, Kourosh AU - Kosari, Haleh AU - Ghorbani, Behzad AB - Background: Infertility is one of the most difficult life experiences that a couple might encounter. Infertility as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon, could influence all aspects of life. While paying special attention to the psychological aspects of infertility in couples; many studies have investigated the non-clinical aspects of infertility, however, they rarely have evaluated the psychosocial development of infertile versus fertile men. We aimed to study the effects of infertility on psychosocial development in men. Methods: In fact, we designed the study based on "Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development". We focused on the relationship between psychosocial development and some self-conceived indices. For this purpose, we divided the participants volunteers into two groups of cases (80 infertile men) and controls (40 fertile men) and asked them to complete a 112 (questions questionnaire based on "self description"). The statistical analysis was performed by SPSS (version 13) using independent t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and analysis of covariance. A p-value <0.05 was considered significant. Results: Data analysis showed significant inter and intra group differences. Infertile and fertile groups showed significant differences in trust, autonomy, generativity and integrity stages (p<0.05). Infertile intergroup analysis represents us to higher scores in positive than negative stages. Conclusion: Infertility as a phenomenon had its own effects on the psychosocial development of infertile men. However, good coping skills are powerful tools to manage these myriad of feelings surrounding infertile men. CY - Tehran, Iran KW - Erikson's theory KW - Infertility KW - Men KW - Psychosocial development LA - English