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SELF-CONFIDENT, assert- suppose that psychological over, the men with these longer they remained child- fertility.
ive, demanding men are factors might affect the characteristics produced low less, whereas in fact there Hellhammer’s experiments
abnormally liable to be sub- production of gonadotrophins volumes of sperm which were was no correlation between on rats supports his theory.
fertile or infertile. Anxious, by the male pituitary and of less motile than average. This aggressiveness and the Rats that could alleviae stress
easily-depressed, neurotic or testosterone by the testes. He group of men also had lower duration of childlessness. by their own efforts became
abnormally guilty men are therefore decided to use three than average levels of test- a more likely explanation, infertile. But rats that had to
likely to be normally fertile. standard personality-evaluat- osterone. ontrol = groups Hellhammer thinks, is that endure stress which it was
These rather surprising find- ing questionnaires to classify including neurotic and de- unaggressive men suffer less clear they could do nothing to
ings come from a new study men in 117 infertile couples. pressed men showed no from stress than aggressive ameliorate remained normally
by D.H. Hellhammer of the He also measured the quant- impairment of fertility. men, because they tend to fertile. It looks as if compet-
psychology - department of ities of sperm the men prod- Hellhammer considered the accept life without thinking itive, high-achieving men may
Munster University in West uced, and the motility of the possibility that the results they can do much to change pay for their achievements by
Germany. sperm. might indicate that infertile their circumstances. Aggress- unresolved stress — which

Hellhamrter~noted that all The studies showed that in men become aggressive as a ive, demanding men, on the depresses hormone _product-
previous psychological invest- general the husbands in the result of some psychological other hand, are always under ion and fertility. Hellhammer
igations of infertile couples infertile couples were less compensation mechanism. stress because they feel a and his colleagues are now
had concentrated on the anxious, more assertive, more But if that were so, then the constant challenge to change trying to devise behavioural
women involved, eveh though demanding and more confid- men might be expected to their circumstances. This type therapy that will help such
there was good reason to ent than the average. More- become more aggressive the of stress could depress men to relax appropriately.

            
      

  

       
 
 

       

 
 
     
 
 

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