The Study of Irrational Beliefs, Defense Mechanisms and Marital Satisfaction in Fertile and Infertile Women

Objective: this study aimed to compare irrational beliefs, defense mechanisms and marital satisfactionin fertile and infertile women.materials and methods: this study was a causal comparative survey performed on 30 fertile and 30infertile women chosen by available and simple random sampling out of the whole clients referred tovali–e–asr reproductive health research center from february 2009 to september 2009. theinstruments of measurement included 3 questionnaires: jones irrational beliefs, defense mechanismsand enrich marital satisfaction which were performed on samples. data were analyzed by spss–16 software.results: the scale of subtests of jones irrational beliefs, defense mechanisms and marital satisfactionwere significantly different in fertile and infertile women.conclusion: the results of this study showed that infertile women use irrational beliefs and defensemechanisms more than fertile women and their marital satisfaction is less than fertile women.