A comparative personality profile of fertile and infertile women in Kolkata

Pages: 1420-1427
Sraboni Chatterjee (Department of Psychology, Bijoy Krishna Girls College, Howrah, Kolkata)
Megha Bhattacharya (Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi)

Parenting is the bond that seals the generation together and the opportunity to pass along life experience to the next generation is what for many of us gives life its meaning. Bearing children and parenting are often the foundations around which couples have built a loving and committed relationship. The issue has been addressed within the periphery of selected psychosocial variables, where the findings established their interconnections and brought out distinctly different personality profiles of selected sub-samples namely fertile and infertile women. The study covered selected variables like well-being, anxiety, depression and narcissism. The sample consisted forty women divided equally twenty for fertile group and twenty for infertile group. Results revealed that infertile women tend to possess higher anxiety and depressive tone, whereas higher narcissism, well-being helps the fertile counterparts to bear homeostasis in their conjugal lives.