Longitudinal, 1 week prior to alternate insemination attempt and the week after receiving a negative pregnancy result | 43 couples | Hierarchical Multiple Regressions | COPE, Emotional Approach Coping scales | BDI | |
Cross sectional, during ART | 31 couples | APIM | Brief COPE | CES-D, PIL | |
Cross sectional, during different stages of infertility treatment | 46 couples | MANOVA | CISS-SSC | BSI | |
Cross sectional, 3 months prior to IVF | 420 couples | MANCOVA | WCQ | BDI | |
Cross sectional, during experience of infertility without IVF attempts | 72 couples | Partial Correlations | WOC | GSI |
Studies | Distancing | Emotion – approach coping/Emotion – oriented coping | Substance use | Positive reinterpretation | Problem – focused coping | Pre-treatment/pre-IVF | Mid-treatment/Mid-IVF | Post-treatment (failure)/Post-IVF |
High use (prior to treatment) | High use | High use | Decreased depressive symptoms | |||||
Low use | High sense of life purpose | |||||||
High use | Increased depressive symptoms |
Studies | Emotion – approach coping /Emotion – oriented coping | Self – controlling coping | Evasive coping/Avoidance | Substance use | Religious coping | Social support seeking | Pre-treatment/pre-IVF | Mid-treatment/Mid-IVF | Post-treatment (failure)/Post-IVF |
Low use | Low use | Decreased depressive symptoms | |||||||
High use | Low use | Low use | High sense of life purpose | ||||||
High use (by both women and men) | Increased distress | ||||||||
High use | Increased depressive symptoms | ||||||||
High use | Increased distress |