Social Support and Resilience in Women Who Have Infertility

Women are often positioned as the party most responsible for marriages that have not been blessed with children because normal women have a tendency to become real mothers and become pregnant. An infertile woman is considered as someone with an abnormality because it is related to her nature to conceive and give birth. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of social support with resilience in women experiencing infertility. The research method uses a quantitative non-experimental. The sampling technique is nonprobability sampling with purposive sampling. The samples are 100 women who experienced infertility. The social support measure uses a theory Uchino with reliability 0.952, and resilience uses a theory of Grotberg with reliability 0.947. The results showed there was a positive and significant effect between social support and resilience (Y = 39,4 +0,995 X, Sig 0,00 and r 0,855). The dimensions of social support that have an influence on resilience are the emotional dimension, the instrumental dimension, and the friendship dimension, where the emotional dimension has the greatest relationship with resilience (r=0,815). Resilience among women experiencing infertility tends to be lower (53%) means they need social support especially on