Infertility and marital satisfaction: Role of emotional intelligence and resilience

Pages: 1210-1214
Tejinder Kaur and Megha Bhargava (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Only a few researchers have studied the role of infertility and other psychological factors on marital satisfaction among Indian couples. The main objective of this study is to explore the effect of infertility and selected psychological variables on the marital satisfaction of the couples and to see whether infertility interact with gender to influence the level of marital satisfaction. Researcher’s shows infertile women were less satisfied in their marital life than their husbands. Infertility and gender had an interaction effect on marital satisfaction. In a regression model, gender, emotional intelligence, resilience and status of infertility emerged as significant predictors of marital satisfaction. Being an infertile Indian woman is definitely disadvantageous compared to the males and the psychological factors like emotional intelligence and resilience could influence the marital satisfaction in the context of infertility. The reviews on marital quality or satisfaction give us some of the correlates of marital quality. These reviews enabled us to include some of them as variables in the present study as there are not many studies available that have looked into the way emotional intelligence, resilience and infertility play a role in marital satisfaction. In this context, we focus on the relationship and interaction among these variables, keeping the Indian context in mind.