Keglovits, Barbara (2024)
Social Egg Freezing
Attitudes, Perceived Social Norms, Control Factors and Experiences in Germany.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00027478
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Social Egg Freezing Attitudes, Perceived Social Norms, Control Factors and Experiences in Germany | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Koppetsch, Prof. Dr. Cornelia ; Niedermeier, Prof. Dr. Sandra | ||||
Date: | 19 June 2024 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | XII, 323 Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 28 February 2024 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00027478 | ||||
Abstract: | Objective: Social egg freezing (SEF) is an assisted reproductive technology whereby women cryopreserve their oocytes to extend female fertility for non-medical reasons. This study aimed (1) to investigate the potential target group’s attitude towards SEF, women who opt for SEF and SEF as an employee benefit. Furthermore, it intended (2) to understand the perceived social norms and behavioural controls involved in the decision to opt for SEF and (3) to learn about the experiences of women who had undergone SEF, and their control factors in opting for it. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with female (n=10) and male (4=0) university students and young graduate professionals with no personal experience of SEF (non-SEF participants), and with women (n=4) who had chosen SEF (SEF participants) in Germany. Results: Non-SEF participants did not reject SEF, but showed both curiosity and concerns about the medical opportunity. Male participants would support their female partners in opting for SEF if they wished it. Non-SEF participants sympathised more with women opting for oocyte cryopreservation for medical reasons than for social reasons. Participants would welcome SEF as an employee benefit, even though they gave a partially negative description of companies’ perceived intentions in providing financial support. Non-SEF participants described SEF as a free choice and a potential tool to balance motherhood and career, but called out social structures that SEF alone cannot eliminate. Should they personally be interested, they believed that they could gather sufficient information on SEF and be able to finance the procedure by themselves, with their families’ support or later, after entering the labour market. SEF women mainly chose this method between the age of 27 and 39, either because they lacked a partner or were pursuing academic studies. They aimed to return to their cryopreserved oocytes should they not be able to fulfil their wish for a child naturally. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | social egg freezing, oocyte cryopreservation, fertility prevention, attitude, employee benefit, freezing experience | ||||
Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-274786 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology | ||||
Divisions: | 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Soziologie > Geschlechterverhältnisse, Bildung und Lebensführung | ||||
Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2024 12:03 | ||||
Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2024 10:54 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/27478 | ||||
PPN: | 519259726 | ||||
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