Michele H Lowry

Biographic Data

ID207029
NAMEMichele H Lowry
GIVEN NAMESMichele H
FAMILY NAMELowry
SIGNATURELOWRY M H
AFFILIATIONSAlfred University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS39
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Self-Perceived Infertility is Not Always Associated with Having Fewer Children: Evidence from German Panel Data

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Desmond D Wallace et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Population /…2024References: 55

    Proximate determinants theory considers infertility rates a risk factor for lower fertility rates, but the assumption that people who perceive infertility will have fewer children has not been tested. This study investigates the association of self-perceived infertility with the number of children people have had after 11 years. Infertility implies reduced chances of conception (rather than sterility), but people do not always consistently percei…

  • Confidence in Pregnancy Among U.S. Women

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Michele H Lowry et al.ARTICLESociological Inquiry2024References: 11

    Researchers often ask women about pregnancy intentions but seldom ask how confident women are that they will be able to become pregnant when they desire. We argue that beliefs about fertility and infertility may function as justifications for behaviors to which one is already committed. Thus, women who have delayed childbearing but who intend to become pregnant may express confidence in their ability to become pregnant, even in the face of dimini…

  • Reproductive Regrets among a Population-Based Sample of U.S. Women

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Michele H Lowry et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2022References: 22

    Women have many reproductive options, but little is known about their regrets regarding prior reproductive choices and outcomes. Guided by the life-course and stratified reproduction perspectives, this study draws on an open-ended question about reproductive regrets from wave I of the National Survey of Fertility Barriers, a representative telephone survey of reproductive aged U.S. women conducted from 2004 to 2006. The authors classified regrets…

  • Does Self-Identifying as Having a Health Problem Precede Medical Contact? The Case of Infertility

    Arthur L Greil, Katherine M Johnson et al.ARTICLESociological Focus2020Cited by: 1References: 17

    Studies of medical help-seeking presume that self-identifying as having a health problem precedes medical contact, but this ordering of the identity-behavior relationship has not been systematically examined. We used longitudinal data from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers (2004 to 2010) on 412 women with infertility to document the temporal relationship between self-identifying as having a fertility problem and making medical contact. Th…

  • Stability and Change in Motherhood Status and Fertility Problem Identification: Implications for Changes in Self-Esteem

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Julia Mcquillan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2020References: 51

    Because motherhood is a valued status, the life course perspective and the theory of conjunctural action suggest the following hypotheses: for women in the United States, gaining the valued identity 'mother' should lead to an increase in self-esteem, while identification with a fertility problem identity should lead to a decrease in self-esteem. Using the nationally representative two-wave National Survey of Fertility Barriers (NSFB), we conducte…

  • Degrees of Medicalization: The Case of Infertility Health-Seeking

    Arthur L Greil, Katherine M Johnson et al.ARTICLESociological Quarterly2020Cited by: 8References: 18

    We examine responses to infertility among a sample of 2,361 women with infertility from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Latent class analysis uncovered seven latent classes of behavioral response which can be arranged in a rough continuum from least medicalized to most medicalized response. We then aggregated these seven categories into three schemas representing various degrees of medicalization. Women in each class combine treatment-…

  • Change in Motherhood Status and Fertility Problem Identification: Implications for Changes in Life Satisfaction

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Julia Mcquillan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2019Cited by: 3References: 27

    ObjectiveTo determine whether the association between changes in life satisfaction and becoming a mother (or not) depends on fertility problem identification status.BackgroundEvidence and symbolic interactionist theory suggest that, for women who initially perceive a fertility barrier, gaining the valued identity "mother" should be associated with increases and continuing to face a blocked goal (i.e., not becoming a mother) should be associated w…

  • Relationship Satisfaction Among Infertile Couples: Implications of Gender and Self-Identification

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Kathleen Slauson-Blevins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2018Cited by: 6References: 70

    We use path analysis to analyze heterosexual couples from the U.S. National Survey of Fertility Barriers, a probability-based sample of women and their male partners. We restrict the sample to couples in which the women are infertile. We estimate a path model of each partner's relationship satisfaction on indicators of self-identifying as having a fertility problem or not at the individual and couple levels. We find a gender effect: for women, bu…

  • Infertility treatment and fertility-specific distress: A longitudinal analysis of a population-based sample of U.S. women

    Open AccessArthur L Greil, Julia Mcquillan et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2011Cited by: 21References: 5