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Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women
Coping with difficulty conceiving and the ensuing fertility treatments is a stressful experience that impacts many aspects of women’s lives. On the basis of Lazarus and Folkman’s model of stress and coping and Schaefer and Moos’s model of personal growth, and in view of the sparse literature on cult...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767553 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032187 |
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author | Abu-Sharkia, Salam Taubman - Ben-Ari, Orit Mofareh, Ali |
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description | Coping with difficulty conceiving and the ensuing fertility treatments is a stressful experience that impacts many aspects of women’s lives. On the basis of Lazarus and Folkman’s model of stress and coping and Schaefer and Moos’s model of personal growth, and in view of the sparse literature on cultural aspects of infertility and personal growth, this study examined the relationship between stress on the one hand and personal growth and life satisfaction on the other among Arab and Jewish Israeli women. Furthermore, it investigated the moderating role played by perceived stigma, coping flexibility, cultural orientation (individualism and collectivism), and ethnicity. Two hundred five Arab and Jewish Israeli women undergoing fertility treatment completed self-report questionnaires. The results show that Arab women reported higher levels of personal growth and individualism than Jewish women. In the whole sample, a linear negative relationship was found between stress and life satisfaction, and a curvilinear relationship was found between stress and personal growth. In addition, perceived stigma, collectivism, individualism, and coping flexibility were found to moderate the association between perceived stress and personal growth. The findings provide further understanding of personal growth in the context of infertility, showing that personal resources and perceptions are more important than cultural differences in this regard. |
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spelling | pubmed-99158862023-02-11 Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women Abu-Sharkia, Salam Taubman - Ben-Ari, Orit Mofareh, Ali Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Coping with difficulty conceiving and the ensuing fertility treatments is a stressful experience that impacts many aspects of women’s lives. On the basis of Lazarus and Folkman’s model of stress and coping and Schaefer and Moos’s model of personal growth, and in view of the sparse literature on cultural aspects of infertility and personal growth, this study examined the relationship between stress on the one hand and personal growth and life satisfaction on the other among Arab and Jewish Israeli women. Furthermore, it investigated the moderating role played by perceived stigma, coping flexibility, cultural orientation (individualism and collectivism), and ethnicity. Two hundred five Arab and Jewish Israeli women undergoing fertility treatment completed self-report questionnaires. The results show that Arab women reported higher levels of personal growth and individualism than Jewish women. In the whole sample, a linear negative relationship was found between stress and life satisfaction, and a curvilinear relationship was found between stress and personal growth. In addition, perceived stigma, collectivism, individualism, and coping flexibility were found to moderate the association between perceived stress and personal growth. The findings provide further understanding of personal growth in the context of infertility, showing that personal resources and perceptions are more important than cultural differences in this regard. MDPI 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9915886/ /pubmed/36767553 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032187 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Abu-Sharkia, Salam Taubman - Ben-Ari, Orit Mofareh, Ali Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women |
title | Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women |
title_full | Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women |
title_fullStr | Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women |
title_short | Personal Growth and Life Satisfaction during Fertility Treatment—A Comparison between Arab and Jewish Women |
title_sort | personal growth and life satisfaction during fertility treatment—a comparison between arab and jewish women |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767553 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032187 |
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