Parenthood and Life Satisfaction: Why Don't Children Make People Happy?
Parenthood and Life Satisfaction: Why Don't Children Make People Happy?
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DOI：
10.1111/jomf.12095
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
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6
通讯作者：
Pollmann-Schult, Matthias
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作者：
Pollmann-Schult, Matthias
以前关于为人父母和生活满意度之间关系的研究表明，有未成年子女的父母对生活的满意度并不比没有子女的人高。这项研究探讨了为什么孩子不能提高父母的生活满意度的问题。本研究的一个主要目的是确定是否以及在多大程度上抚养孩子的成本作为抑制剂的生活满意度。实证分析采用了固定效应模型，并使用了德国社会经济小组的数据（1994-2010年，N = 16，021）。本研究的3个主要发现是：（a）为人父母本身对生活满意度具有实质性和持久的积极影响;（B）这些积极影响被为人父母的财务和时间成本所抵消;（c）这些成本的影响因家庭因素而异，例如孩子的年龄和数量、婚姻状况以及父母的就业安排。
Previous research on the association between parenthood and life satisfaction has shown that parents of minor children are not more satisfied with their lives than childless people. This study addressed the question of why children do not enhance their parents' life satisfaction. A major objective of this study was to determine whether and to what extent the costs of raising children act as suppressors of life satisfaction. The empirical analysis applied fixed-effects models and used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1994-2010, N = 16,021). The 3 primary findings of this study were that (a) parenthood by itself has substantial and enduring positive effects on life satisfaction; (b) these positive effects are offset by financial and time costs of parenthood; and (c) the impact of these costs varies considerably with family factors, such as the age and number of children, marital status, and the parents' employment arrangements.