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Published in final edited form as: J Loss Trauma. 2009;14(3):211–227. doi: 10.1080/15325020802537468

Table 3.

Fertility-Related Distress by Motherhood, Pregnancy Loss, and Infertile Status (N = 1,525)

	Mother, pregnancy loss		Childless, pregnancy loss		Childless, infertile		Range
Variable	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Reaction to fertility problem(s)
Cheated by life	0.22	0.42 ^a	0.42	0.50 ^b	0.26	0.44 ^c	0--1	^**
Was being punished	0.16	0.36 ^a	0.32	0.47 ^b	0.21	0.41 ^a	0--1	^**
Angry at God	0.13	0.34 ^a	0.32	0.47 ^b	0.15	0.36 ^c	0--1	^***
Feel inadequate	0.24	0.43 ^a	0.45	0.50 ^b	0.33	0.47 ^a	0--1	^***
Seriously depressed	0.34	0.47 ^a	0.45	0.50 ^a	0.27	0.44 ^b	0--1	^*
Failure as a woman	0.19	0.39 ^a	0.36	0.48 ^b	0.23	0.42 ^a	0--1	^**

Note: Categories with the same letter (a, b, c) are NOT significantly different from each other at the p<.05 level using Tukey Honest Significant Difference (HSD).

^***

p<.001;

^**

p<.01;

p<.05.