Parenthood and well-being: Individual, familial, and contextual determinants of parental life satisfaction

父母身份和福祉：父母生活满意度的个人、家庭和背景决定因素

• 批准号: 276104054
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Matthias Pollmann-Schult
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Sozialwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/276104054?language=en
• 关键词: Parenthood; well; being; Individual; familial

This research project scrutinizes the effect of minor children on the life satisfaction of their parents. Against the background of the value of children theory and similar theoretical perspectives, this project hypotheses that parenthood provides psychological-affective rewards, which enhance life satisfaction, but also imposes psychological, financial and time costs, which negatively affect parental life satisfaction. A primary objective of this project is to test if the costs and rewards of children impact the life satisfaction of parents. Particularly, this project analyzes the extent to which individual, familial and contextual factors affect the costs and rewards of parenthood and thus mediate and moderate the association between parenthood and life satisfaction. The research project is organized in two parts. In the first part, we scrutinize the effects of parenthood on life satisfaction using longitudinal data from Germany (SOEP, Familien in Deutschland, pairfam) and analyze the extent to which parental life satisfaction is moderated by individual and familial factors. Here, we postulate that personality traits, marital status, parental employment pattern, and child related characteristics impact the financial, psychological, and time costs of parenthood and, in turn, affect the life satisfaction of parents. In the second part, we analyze the extent to which macro-structural factors affect parental life satisfaction using cross-country data (European Social Survey). Here, we address the question of whether cultural factors and social policies influence the life satisfaction of parents. The results of this research project will enable us to describe and evaluate the life situation of parents with regard to their subjective well-being. Moreover, the research project provides valuable insight into fertility behavior. Because fertility plans are influenced by expected gains in life satisfaction, the analysis of parental life satisfaction can complement existing knowledge on the determinants of fertility behavior. With regard to low fertility rates in Germany it is of particular interest whether and to what extent family policy arrangements affect parental life satisfaction and thus fertility plans.

这项研究项目仔细研究了未成年子女对父母生活满意度的影响。在儿童价值理论和类似理论观点的背景下，本项目假设为人父母提供心理-情感回报，这提高了生活满意度，但也强加了心理、经济和时间成本，这对父母的生活满意度产生负面影响。这个项目的一个主要目标是测试孩子的成本和回报是否会影响父母的生活满意度。特别是，该项目分析了个人、家庭和环境因素对为人父母的成本和回报的影响程度，从而调节和调节了为人父母和生活满意度之间的联系。该研究项目分为两个部分。在第一部分中，我们使用德国的纵向数据(SOEP，Familien in Deutschland，pairfam)考察了父母身份对生活满意度的影响，并分析了个人和家庭因素对父母生活满意度的调节程度。在这里，我们假设人格特征、婚姻状况、父母就业模式和与孩子相关的特征会影响为人父母的经济、心理和时间成本，进而影响父母的生活满意度。第二部分，利用欧洲社会调查的跨国数据，分析宏观结构因素对父母生活满意度的影响程度。在这里，我们讨论文化因素和社会政策是否会影响父母的生活满意度。这一研究项目的结果将使我们能够描述和评估父母的主观幸福感方面的生活状况。此外，该研究项目还为生育行为提供了有价值的见解。由于生育计划受到生活满意度预期收益的影响，父母生活满意度的分析可以补充关于生育行为决定因素的现有知识。关于德国的低生育率，特别令人感兴趣的是，家庭政策安排是否以及在多大程度上影响父母的生活满意度，从而影响生育计划。