4. 1 Main Findings
It was determined that the risk factors that increase the social-emotional capacity burden of couples are age, years of marriage, and individual, marital, and social stress. Yılmaz et al.36 found a positive and statistically significant linear relationship between infertility distress and duration of marriage, desire to have a baby, and duration of infertility treatment. In our study findings, infertility treatment duration was not a risk factor in terms of social-emotional capacity. In addition, in line with the results of our study, it can be said that the methods used by couples to cope with infertility stress do not have a protective effect on the increase in individuals’ social-emotional capacity burdens.