DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i01.049

Pages: 244-248

It is known that the Social support and Problem-focused coping have important roles on improving mental health in the infertile women. The purpose of this research was to test a model for the effect of social support on mental health considering the mediating role of problem-oriented coping strategy. In this correlation study, 95 infertile women that had referred to Fasa public and private medical centers were selected through available sampling. Participants completed Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Mental Health Inventory (MHI) and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS-21). Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-18 and AMOS-18 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the bootstrap procedure. Findings indicated that the proposed model fit the data properly and social support has direct and indirect effect on mental health in infertile women. The results also supported the mediating role problem-oriented coping strategy in the relationship between social support and mental health. The study results revealed that the perceived family support can have a powerful impact on how a woman experiences infertility stress, both directly and indirectly. Also, high levels of perceived support from friends can decrease women‟s social stress levels through the use of active-confronting coping strategies, too.