Abstract

Infertility is approached in this article as a personal crisis that is based on a conflict between an ideal self as mother and woman and a real self as infertile. E.T. Higgins (1987) self-discrepancy theory is proposed as a model for understanding the variability in the levels of distress and the types of emotional reactions to infertility.

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