The Interrelationship Between Women's Involvement In Decision Making In Labor And Their Perception Of The Labor Experience Labor is one of the most significant events in women's lives. The process and outcome of labor may have long term effects on the way women perceive the parenting role and their personal, emotional and physical capability. Each woman arrives to labor with a planned construct of beliefs, expectations and fantasies regarding the labor process and outcomes, which are driven from different cultural values and personal beliefs. The clinical reality does not always correlate with this emotional construct and with a woman's anticipated level of involvement in decision making at labor. Discrepancy between women's desired or expected labor processes and what happens in actuality may have a substantial impact on women's lives and on the way they will experience future births. The main goal of this research is to investigate the effects of labor process on women by examining the question whether women's involvement in decision making during labor has an effect on their perceived labor process.