MOTIVATIONAL AND NONMOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD-NUMBER DESIRES
MOTIVATIONAL AND NONMOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD-NUMBER DESIRES
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DOI：
10.1007/bf02209405
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发表时间：
1993-11-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
PASTA, DJ
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作者：
MILLER, WB;PASTA, DJ
个人想要孩子的数量——通常被称为家庭规模欲望或偏好——是许多旨在理解和预测生育率的研究的中心概念。它经常被用作生育动机结构的代理。本文提出了一个理论框架来组织和阐明这两个构念之间的关系。这种关系是用一种可靠、有效的生育动机测量方法和195名没有孩子的丈夫和196名没有孩子的妻子以及196名有一个孩子的丈夫和196名妻子的数据来检验的。结果表明，生育动机与生育数量愿望之间存在复杂的关系，具有曲线性，并且无法区分那些想要两个以上孩子的人。我们将讨论这种模式的含义。
The number of children desired by individuals-often referred to as family size desires or preferences-is a central construct in much research designed to understand and predict fertility. It is often used as a proxy for the construct of childbearing motivation. This paper presents a theoretical framework that organizes and elucidates the relationship between these two constructs. That relationship is examined using a reliable, valid measure of childbearing motivation and data from 195 husbands and 196 wives with no children and 196 husbands and 196 wives with one child. The results indicate that childbearing motivation has a complex relationship with child-number desires, characterized by curvilinearity and a failure to distinguish among those desiring more than two children. We discuss the implications of this pattern.