TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychoneuroimmunology and male infertility
T2 - A possible link between stress, coping and male immunological infertility
AU - Kedem, Peri
AU - Mikulincer, Mario
AU - Bartoov, Benjamin
AU - Shkolnik, Tamar
PY - 1992/7/1
Y1 - 1992/7/1
N2 - This current study investigated a link between stress and coping with some male infertility problems via psychoneuroimmunological theories. The study was carried out on 77 males who came to a fertility clinic for sperm diagnosis. Appraisal and coping with stress reaction to negative life events and to infertility were related to non-sperm cells within the seminal plasma. Those men who had felt strained from external events and from problems of infertility, and had used emotional escape coping strategies, were more prone to have an immunosuppressed reaction, indicated by bacteria within their plasma. Those using task focused control strategies were more prone to have an immunostimulatory reaction, indicated by white blood cells, including in some cases, sperm destroying phagocytes suggesting a possible auto-immunity reaction. When the analyses were done separately on patients with known male fertility problems in comparison with those with unexplained infertility, the two opposing psychoneuroimmunological processes became more pronounced.
AB - This current study investigated a link between stress and coping with some male infertility problems via psychoneuroimmunological theories. The study was carried out on 77 males who came to a fertility clinic for sperm diagnosis. Appraisal and coping with stress reaction to negative life events and to infertility were related to non-sperm cells within the seminal plasma. Those men who had felt strained from external events and from problems of infertility, and had used emotional escape coping strategies, were more prone to have an immunosuppressed reaction, indicated by bacteria within their plasma. Those using task focused control strategies were more prone to have an immunostimulatory reaction, indicated by white blood cells, including in some cases, sperm destroying phagocytes suggesting a possible auto-immunity reaction. When the analyses were done separately on patients with known male fertility problems in comparison with those with unexplained infertility, the two opposing psychoneuroimmunological processes became more pronounced.
KW - Male infertility
KW - coping
KW - immunity
KW - psychoneuroimmunology
KW - stress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84972950135&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08870449208403181
DO - 10.1080/08870449208403181
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AN - SCOPUS:84972950135
SN - 0887-0446
VL - 6
SP - 159
EP - 173
JO - Psychology and Health
JF - Psychology and Health
IS - 3
ER -
