The personality and motivation of semen donors: a comparison with oocyte donors
| Autor: | L. R. Schover, S.A. Rothmann, R.L. Collins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Employment
Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI Semen medicine Humans Personality Psychological testing Marriage media_common Gynecology Motivation Oocyte Donation Donor selection business.industry Racial Groups Rehabilitation Obstetrics and Gynecology Spermatozoa Tissue Donors Psychological evaluation Reproductive Medicine Donation Structured interview Oocytes Educational Status Insemination Artificial Heterologous Anxiety Female medicine.symptom business Confidentiality Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Human Reproduction. 7:575-579 |
| ISSN: | 1460-2350 0268-1161 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137694 |
| Popis: | Seventeen consecutively recruited candidates for semen donation were evaluated by a psychologist with testing and a structured interview. Most men (71%) were motivated by financial compensation. Only 29% would donate semen if records were open to potential offspring. Fifty-nine per cent of the men were rated as excellent candidates from a psychological perspective and 35% were rated as acceptable with slight reservations. One was excluded as a donor. Psychological testing revealed mildly abnormal subscale scores for 35% of donors. Forty-seven per cent had histories of minor depressive or anxiety episodes and 35% had had periods of heavy alcohol use. Compared to oocyte donors at the same institution, the men were less altruistic, more affluent, and more likely to have abused alcohol. Women had more traumatic family and reproductive histories. Psychological evaluation can be a valuable tool in gamete donor selection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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