应对不孕不育的成本:扩展对压力因素评估理论的理论
Natasha Poularikas1, Alexiss Jeffers2, Seoin Yoon3
1Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, University of Oklahoma.
The Journal of applied psychology
|February 17, 2026
概括
不孕症治疗的财务毒性增加了工作女性的焦虑. 保险可以减轻这种情况,改善福祉和职业成果.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 不孕症影响到13%的生育年龄妇女,造成严重的压力.
- 交易性压力理论表明,应对机制可以减少焦虑,但这并不总是在接受不孕症治疗的女性中观察到的.
- 现有的研究忽视了与不孕症治疗相关的财务负担.
研究的目的:
- 调查辅助生殖技术 (ART) 对工作女性焦虑的财务毒性的影响.
- 测试保险覆盖可以减轻财务毒性和减少焦虑的假设.
- 调和应对的理论期望与患有不孕不育的妇女生活经验之间的差异.
主要方法:
- 对澳大利亚纵向面板数据 (N=2,728) 和美国横截面调查 (N=192) 的分析.
- 来自两个不同的群体的数据的三角测量,以测试假设.
- 交易压力理论的应用,以了解应对和财务毒性.
主要成果:
- 与不孕症治疗相关的财务毒性阻碍了其作为应对机制的有效性,导致持续的焦虑.
- 发现保险覆盖可能会"排毒"治疗费用并减少焦虑.
- 研究结果支持这样一个假设:财务压力加剧了接受不孕症治疗的女性的压力.
结论:
- 应对策略的有效性可能会受到金融毒性的破坏,需要更广泛的应对概念化.
- 社会和公共政策的影响很大,需要可行的解决方案来解决不孕症护理中的财务障碍.
- 该研究强调了在理论框架和实际干预中考虑金融毒性的必要性.
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