Fertility Practitioners' Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paulien Hertogs (0000-0002-1038-4058, University of Antwerp), Dries Van Gasse (0000-0003-2577-6924, University of Antwerp, corresponding author), Sascha Spikic (0000-0001-7677-262X, KU Leuven), Vicky Lyssens‐danneboom (0000-0003-3285-8223, University of Antwerp) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 438 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci10110438 |
| OpenAlex | W3211757790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 57 |
Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic's multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fulfil a gatekeeping role. However, this can cause an intra-role conflict as the responsibility to select the best fitting candidates is at odds with the responsibility to help patients. In this explorative study, we examine how fertility practitioners cope with the strain resulting from intra-role conflict in the decision-making process regarding single motherhood by choice in Belgium. The findings showed that practitioners appear to mainly resort to problem-focused coping, by constructing a grassroots criteria list and by shifting their role from screening agent to counsellor. These results are based on ten open in-depth interviews with fertility practitioners employed in the multidisciplinary teams of fertility centers, using a reflexive interview lead
Conflict resolution · Coping (psychology · Environmental health · Fertility · Gatekeeping · Odds · Political science · Population · Clinical Psychology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |