Study Abbey et al. (1994): study US 1988
- Public
- Infertile couples and matched controls, followed 3 years, USA 1988-1990
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 496
- Non Response
- 20%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
at T1 face-to-face, at T2 and T3 by telephone
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Infertility seen as problem
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Assessed at T1(1988) and T3 (1990)
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Infertility named as biggest problem in a series of nine questions on the amount of stress and disruption that the fertility problem had produced in respondent's life.
Rated: not at all (1) to a big deal (5)