Abstract

BARRA ALMAGIA, Enrique  and  VACCARO HUESPE, María de los Angeles. Perceived stress, coping and hardy personality in infertile women. liber. [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.1, pp.113-119. ISSN 1729-4827.

The study examined the relationships between perceived stress, coping strategies and resistant personality in women undergoing treatment for infertility from Concepción (Chile). Participants were 115 women, 20 to 47 years old. Perceived stress presented negative relationships with the dimension of control of hardy personality and with Problem-solving coping and Positive reappraisal, and positive relationships with Overt emotional expression and Negative auto-focused coping. All the dimensions of resistant personality showed positive relationships with Problem-solving coping. Diverse explanatory factors for obtained results are proposed.

Keywords : Infertility; Stress; Coping; Hardy Personality.

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