Personal Meaning of a Child and Experience of a Meaning of Life Crisis in a Situation of Infertility
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5105-2024-2-40-55
Abstract
Aim. Theoretical analysis and empirical study of the role of a child’s personal meaning for an adult in the regulation of coping behavior and in the determination of a meaning of life crisis in a situation of infertility.
Methodology. An empirical study was conducted on a sample of reproductive patients – adults with medically diagnosed infertility – in the situation of seeking advice on the use of assisted reproductive technologies. Empirical data were collected using standardized methods: «The Scale for Value of Children», «Smyslometria of the Child» and «The Scale for Coping with Infertility». Statistical processing of data was carried out using the methods of correlation, regression, mediator-moderator and path analysis.
Results. The mechanisms and patterns of meaning regulation of the coping behavior of adults in a situation of infertility are revealed, including the place and role of the meaning of life crisis in overcoming it. The functional dependence of the probability of occurrence and intensity of experience of a life-meaning crisis on the personal meaning of a child for an infertile adult has been proven.
Research implications. There were identified the psychological mechanisms and patterns of the relationship between coping behavior, a crisis of meaning in life and the personal meaning of a child for an adult in a situation of infertility, as well as the possibility of using the results obtained in counseling and psychotherapeutic anti-crisis care for reproductive medicine patients.
About the Author
K. V. Karpinski
Yanka Kupala Grodno State University
Belarus
Belarus
Konstantin V. Karpinski – Doct. Sci (Psychology), Prof, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
ul. Ozeshko, 22, Grodno 230023
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