Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation: Risk Factor for Fertility Quality of Life among Infertile Women: A Cross-sectional Study.
- 1Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Amity School of Social Sciences, Amity University, Punjab, India.
- 2Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract
Background
Infertility poses considerable emotional and social challenges and is associated with reduced quality of life among women. The experience of infertility can evoke a range of emotional responses, including stress, anxiety and feelings of loss, which leads to psychological distress, making cognitive-emotion regulation a crucial factor to assess and substantiate its interwoven nature.Aim
This study aims to explore this intricate display of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) with fertility quality of life (FQoL) among women suffering from infertility.Settings and design
The present study employed a cross-sectional, correlational research design. Purposive sampling recruited 103 women aged 20-40 years from two different fertility clinics.Materials and methods
Participants were assessed with a sociodemographic sheet, the CER Questionnaire and the Hindi FertiQoL Scale.Statistical analysis used
The relationships between the variables were explored using descriptive statistics, correlational analysis and hierarchical regression.Results
The findings indicate that FQoL is significantly negatively associated with self-blame and overall maladaptive CER (M-CER) and positively associated with refocus on planning. In hierarchical regression, refocus on planning was added as an adaptive strategy and showed a positive trend in predicting FQoL (β =0.194, P = 0.052), whereas self-blame (β = -0.351, P < 0.01) and M-CER (β = -0.075, P < 0.05) emerged as significant negative predictors.Conclusion
These findings highlight the necessity for focused psychological interventions that assist infertile women in recognising and reducing M-CER strategies while promoting adaptive regulation.
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BibTeX
@article{anupriya2026maladaptive,
title = {{Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation: Risk Factor for Fertility Quality of Life among Infertile Women: A Cross-sectional Study.}},
author = {Anupriya and Aatika Siddiqui and Swaran Lata},
journal = {Journal of human reproductive sciences},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.4103/jhrs.jhrs_269_25},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42924329},
note = {CC BY-NC-SA},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation: Risk Factor for Fertility Quality of Life among Infertile Women: A Cross-sectional Study.
AU - Anupriya
AU - Aatika Siddiqui
AU - Swaran Lata
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/01
JO - Journal of human reproductive sciences
DO - 10.4103/jhrs.jhrs_269_25
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42924329
AB - Background Infertility poses considerable emotional and social challenges and is associated with reduced quality of life among women. The experience of infertility can evoke a range of emotional responses, including stress, anxiety and feelings of loss, which leads to psychological distress, making cognitive-emotion regulation a crucial factor to assess and substantiate its interwoven nature.Aim This study aims to explore this intricate display of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) with fertility quality of life (FQoL) among women suffering from infertility.Settings and design The present study employed a cross-sectional, correlational research design. Purposive sampling recruited 103 women aged 20-40 years from two different fertility clinics.Materials and methods Participants were assessed with a sociodemographic sheet, the CER Questionnaire and the Hindi FertiQoL Scale.Statistical analysis used The relationships between the variables were explored using descriptive statistics, correlational analysis and hierarchical regression.Results The findings indicate that FQoL is significantly negatively associated with self-blame and overall maladaptive CER (M-CER) and positively associated with refocus on planning. In hierarchical regression, refocus on planning was added as an adaptive strategy and showed a positive trend in predicting FQoL (β =0.194, P = 0.052), whereas self-blame (β = -0.351, P < 0.01) and M-CER (β = -0.075, P < 0.05) emerged as significant negative predictors.Conclusion These findings highlight the necessity for focused psychological interventions that assist infertile women in recognising and reducing M-CER strategies while promoting adaptive regulation.
SN - 0974-1208
SN - 1998-4766
ER -