SIBSHIP SIZE AND YOUNG WOMEN'S TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD IN INDIA
SIBSHIP SIZE AND YOUNG WOMEN'S TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD IN INDIA
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DOI：
10.1017/s0021932017000360
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Zavier, A. J. Francis
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作者：
Santhya, K. G.;Zavier, A. J. Francis
在印度，很大一部分年轻人在小家庭中长大，兄弟姐妹比前几代年轻人少。关于兄弟姐妹人数减少与年轻人生活经历之间关系的研究有限。本文利用2006- 2008年对印度5万多名年轻人进行的一项次国家级代表性研究的数据，研究了幸存的兄弟姐妹人数与年轻女性（20-24岁）向成年过渡之间的关联。没有或只有一个幸存兄弟姐妹的年轻女性被归类为幸存兄弟姐妹人数少的女性，而两个或两个以上幸存兄弟姐妹的女性被归类为幸存兄弟姐妹人数多的女性。进行了双变量和多变量回归分析，以确定兄弟姐妹的大小和结果指标之间的关系。还分别对低生育率和高生育率环境进行了分析。兄弟姐妹人数少往往在许多方面对年轻妇女成功过渡到成年的机会产生积极影响。兄弟姐妹较少的年轻妇女比其他人更有可能报告完成中学学业、参加职业技能培训方案、经历两性平等的社会化做法、遵守两性平等规范、行使婚前代理权和倾向于小家庭规模。这些关联在低生育率环境中比在高生育率环境中更为明显。
In India, a substantial proportion of young people are growing up in smaller families with fewer siblings than earlier generations of young people. Studies exploring the associations between declines in sibship size and young people's life experiences are limited. Drawing on data from a sub-nationally representative study conducted in 2006-08 of over 50,000 youths in India, this paper examines the associations between surviving sibship size and young women's (age 20-24) transitions to adulthood. Young women who reported no or a single surviving sibling were categorized as those with a small surviving sibship size, and those who reported two or more surviving siblings as those with a large surviving sibship size. Bivariate and multivariate regression analyses were conducted to ascertain the relationship between sibship size and outcome indicators. Analysis was also done separately for low- and high-fertility settings. Small sibship size tended to have a positive influence in many ways on young women's chances of making successful transitions to adulthood. Young women with fewer siblings were more likely than others to report secondary school completion, participation in vocational skills training programmes, experience of gender egalitarian socialization practices, adherence to gender egalitarian norms, exercise of pre-marital agency and small family size preferences. These associations were more apparent in low- than high-fertility settings.