The effects of femi̇ni̇ni̇ty and masculinity myths to unexplainable infertility

The aim of this study is to assess femininity, motherhood, and desire to have a child and intergenerational femininity transmission to daughters, desire to be a mother and motherhood-femininity relationship psycoanalytically; and to reveal the background of psychic structures of infertile women with the disorder defined as unexplainable infertility, which refers to women who can not have a child even though they do not have any organic problems. The study was conducted with the participation of 50 fertile women in the pediatry section of Medipol Hospital and 50 women diagnosed as infertiles in Ankara Medicana and Medical Park Hospitals. The levels of femininity and masculinity and the degrees of beliefs in sexual myths of infertile women were assessed through using BEM Gender Inventory and The Form of Assesment of Sexual Myths. While data was being assessed, Kolmogorov-Smirnov distribution test was used for analysing normal distribution with descriptor statistical methods. In intergroup comparison of quantitative data ; in case of two groups, Mann Whitney U test, with three and more groups, Kruskal Wallis test, to find out intergroup dual differences Bonferroni method, for scale reliability Croanbach's Alpha Analysis was utilized. In conclusion of survey findings, it was found out that there was not any meaningful difference between the levels of beliefs in sexual myths of infertile and fertile women feminine/masculine stereotype identification tendency and the degree of belief in sexual myths; a meaningful difference was found between feminine and masculine stereotype identification tendency levels,the degree of masculine stereotype identification tendency in infertile women were more than fertile women, and the levels of feminine stereotype identification tendency of fertile women were more than infertile women.