Bonding to God, Coping Styles and Quality of Life Among Individuals with Infertility

Abstract

The present study sought to examine the relationship between Boning to God, Coping styles and quality of life among infertile individuals. A sample of 189 participants consisting 57 males and 132 females. The main objective of this study was to determine bonding to God (connection to God, complaining attitude towards God, connection with God, Level of content) associated to quality of life. And to determine coping styles (Emotion Focused and Problem Focused) mediate the association between bonding to God and quality of life. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant relationship between quality of life, coping styles, and bonding to God among individuals with infertility. It was hypothesized that there would be a relationship of bonding to God and quality of life with mediating role of Coping Styles (Problem focused coping and Emotion focused coping) among individuals with infertility. There would be a significant difference on the variable of Bonding to God, coping styles and Quality of life between male and females with infertility and there would be a significant relationship between socio-demographic variables and Bonding to God, Coping styles, and Quality of life among individuals with infertility. For assessing the Bonding to God, Saleem (2004) Bonding to God Scale was utilized, for measuring Coping Styles, Zaman & Ali (2004) Coping Styles Scale was utilized, and for Quality of life, Boivin (2011) Fertility Quality of Life was utilized. Hence, the findings of this study indicated significant positive relationship between problem focused and quality of life besides negative significant relationship between emotion focused and quality of life among infertile individuals’ emotion focused coping is more in females and problem solving coping is more in males. Furthermore, no significant gender differences were revealed for Bonding to God. There is a signification relationship between Bonding to God and Quality of life with mediating role of Emotion focused and Problem focused coping among infertile individuals. The outcomes of present study will provide help and benefit to infertility clinics. It will help the mental health professionals to create specific management plans for individuals with infertility, how to cope with infertility and connect to God