| Abstrakt: |
Osgood‘s Semantic Differential Questionnaire was used to study 40 couples undergoing an artificial insemination by donor (AID) programme. The following reference concepts were used: Father, Mother, Work, Marriage, Myself, Children, Pregnancy, Guilt, Sex and Family. The results show that women consider ’being a Mother‘ as something emotionally ’warm‘, take a positive position, feel ’nervous‘ and wish the event happened quickly; this is significantly different to men, who give less importance to this fact. Men are more concerned about the pregnancy and consider it a ’hard‘, ’strong‘ and ’heavy‘ experience. The score in the concept Guilt significantly stands out from the rest of the concepts in both men and women; it is also striking how AID women relate the concept Mother with the concept Father, whereas men establish the association between Mother and Work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
