Subjective well-being in infertile couples

The subjective well-being of infertile couples is affected by numerous vari ables. One hundred and ten infertile couples were investigated using the vo n Zerssen symptom checklist. With the exception of sterile women of fertile men (group 1: female infertility), women and men in the overall randomized sample and the diagnostic groups (group 2. subfertility of the man; group 3. sterility of both partners, group 4: idiopathic sterility) report fewer general symptoms than the overall population of patients with somatic and p sychiatric diseases, Subfertile men show lower rating in the symptom checkl ist than the norm. Involuntarily childless women express more symptoms than their partners.