Pnm-18: Personality Characteristics and Psychological Well-Being in Infertile Women

Background: To identify the relation(s) of personality characteristics and psychological well-being in infertile women and also well-being prognosis according to the personality characteristics. Materials and Methods: 240 women who had been diagnosed with infertility and who were undergoing fertility treatment at private infertility clinic (Navid Institute), Tehran, Iran participated in the study. The study population was selected randomly from patients referring to the institute. The age of the participants was between 25 and 40 years. The patients with a history of more than once infertility treatment were excluded. All the eligible women fulfilled a short questionnaire comprising of 5 personality factors (NEO Five-Factor Inventory: NEO-FFI) and a well-being questionnaire. Results: Evaluation and analysis of data by multivariate regression analysis indicates that personality characteristics were significantly associated with psychological well-being. Neuroticism (r=-0.5) is negatively and extraversion (r=0.4), adjustment (r=0.4), conscientious (r=0.4), openness to experience (r=0.1) are positively, associated with psychological well-being (p<0.05). Conclusion: Regarding prognosis of psychological well-being according to personality characteristics, analysis of results expresses that neuroticism, adjustment and conscientious can explain wellbeing, which neuroticism (26.2%) is more significant, and the other factors (adjustment and conscientious) have a role of (5.90%).