Abstract

The purpose of this study is to confirm the relationship between socially imposed perfectionism, self-conceptual clarity, and difficulty in emotional regulation, in infertile wome’s depression. as well as the dual mediating effect of self-conceptualization and difficulty in emotional regulation on the effects of socially imposed perfectionism on depression. is to do For this purpose, SPSS Statistics 21.0 and SPSS Macro Model 4 and Model 6 were used for the finally collected data of 83 copies of the questionnaire distributed to 150 infertile women, and Pearson's correlation analysis, linear regression analysis, individual mediating effect, and dual effects were used. Mediating effect analysis was conducted. The main results of this study are as follows. First, socially imposed perfectionism, self-concept clarity, and difficulty in emotional regulation of infertile women were found to have a significant correlation with depression. Second, self-concept clarity and difficulty in emotional regulation were found to have partial mediating effects on the effects of socially imposed perfectionism on depression in infertile women. Third, it was found that self-concept clarity and difficulty in emotional regulation had a dual mediating effect on the effect of socially imposed perfectionism on depression in infertile women. These findings are expected to provide implications for psychotherapeutic intervention to reduce psychological pain in infertile women.