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Mozhgan Shakhseniaei; Imanollah Bigdeli; Abbas Firoozabadi
Abstract
Objective: Infertility is a medical condition that can cause psychological, physical, psychological, spiritual and medical harm to the patient. Psychosomatic symptoms are prevalent among infertile women and can significantly impair their quality of life and daily activities. Psychosomatic symptoms are ...
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Objective: Infertility is a medical condition that can cause psychological, physical, psychological, spiritual and medical harm to the patient. Psychosomatic symptoms are prevalent among infertile women and can significantly impair their quality of life and daily activities. Psychosomatic symptoms are created as physiological symptoms associated with emotional situations .Infertile women experience psychosomatic symptoms such as headache, lack of concentration, nausea and mental distress. Considering the critical need for improving and addressing these symptoms, it is essential to examine the psychological factors that affect psychosomatic symptoms. The purpose of this study is to explore the association between early maladaptive schemas and psychosomatic symptoms, with a focus on the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in infertile women to help identify the variables affecting psychosomatic symptoms and also to reduce these symptoms and psychological injuries of these people. Method: This research uses a descriptive, correlational approach and has a structural equation modeling. The statistical population consisted of infertile women who visited an infertility clinic in Mashhad. To this end, 360 individuals volunteered to participate. Data were collected using the Young Early Maladaptive Schema Questioner Short Form (1994), Takata and Sakata Psychosomatic Symptoms Questioner (2004), and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Short Form (2007). The analysis of the data was carried out using the Pearson correlation test, structural equation modeling, and path analysis by SPSS 22 and AMOS 24 software. Results: According to the results, early maladaptive schemas and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies have a positive relationship with psychosomatic symptoms and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies have a significant negative relationship with psychosomatic symptoms (P<0.001). The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in infertile women (P < 0.001 and β = -0.41) was statistically significant. The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in infertile women (P < 0.001 and β = 0.43) was statistically significant. The relationship between adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and psychosomatic symptoms in infertile women (P < 0.001 and β = -0.18) was statistically significant. The relationship between maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and psychosomatic symptoms in infertile women (P < 0.001 and β = 0.21) was statistically significant. The indirect relationship of early maladaptive schemas through adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies with psychosomatic symptoms (P = 0.001 and β = 0.130) and the indirect relationship of early maladaptive schemas through maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies with psychosomatic symptoms (P = 0.001 and β = 0.140) were statistically significant. Furthermore, the structural equation modeling results showed that cognitive emotion regulation strategies play a mediating role in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and psychosomatic symptoms, and all fit indices indicated a good model fit. Conclusion: This research can be used as a basis for conducting interventional research, including cognitive emotion regulation strategies and schema therapy. The results demonstrate the importance of teaching cognitive emotion regulation skills to infertile women. Given the emergence of psychosomatic symptoms in these individuals, adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies may help alleviate the frequency and intensity of psychosomatic symptoms in this group.
