A study of the mediating effect of marital adjustment between type D personality and fertility quality of life in infertile women
ZHANG Hongxiang
LIU Fang
HAN Ying
DONG Hanqiong
Abstract：Objective To investigate the impact of type D personality on infertile women's fertility quality of life and the mediating role of marital adjustment.Methods Between November 2021 and July 2022,213 infertile women were recruited using convenience sampling.The General Information Questionnaire,Fertility Quality of Life,type D personality scale-14 and Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test were used to investigate the subjects.A total of 216 questionnaires were distributed,216 were recovered,213 were valid,and the validity rate of the questionnaires was 98.6%.The mediation effect analysis was carried out using model 4 in SPSS 24.0 macro program PROCESS.Results A-mong 213 infertile women,111(52.11%)were type D personality.The total score of fertility quality of life,emotional response,psychosomatic relationship,marital relationship,treatment tolerance,and treatment environment scores of infertile women with type D personality were lower than those of infertile women with non-type D personality,and the difference was statistically significant(P＜0.05).Type D personality direct-ly and negatively predicted the fertility quality of life(β=-0.387,P＜0.001).Marital adjustment partially mediated the relationship between type D personality and the fertility quality of life,with a mediation effect value of 0.141,accounting for 26.70%of the total effect.Conclusion Infer-tile women with type D personality adopt couple joint education of dyadic coping to improve their marital adjustment and fertility quality of life.
Keywords：personality traitinfertilityfertility quality of lifemarital adjustmentdyadic coping
Publication Date：2023-12-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 941-945 )