Self-esteem and Depression in Fertile and Infertile Women

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Page: 208-211

Poonam Devi and Sanjay Kumar (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Almost everybody wants to conceive as soon as they decide to begin their family life. The psychological desire to have children is satisfying experience and highly expected. The sample was collected from 180 infertile and 180 fertile women. Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, 1996) and Rosenberg Self-esteem Inventory (Rosenberg, 1965) were administered to assess the Depression and Self-esteem levels respectively. Results revealed that infertile women scored higher on Depression than fertile women and lower on Self-esteem than fertile women.