Childbearing intentions in a low fertility context: the case of Romania

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Maria Felice Arezzo¹  Alessandra De Rose¹  Alexandra-Andreea Ciritel² 

[1] Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance – Sapienza University of Rome;Department of Social Statistics and Demography and ESRC Centre for Population Change, Social Sciences University of Southampton;

关键词: Fertility intentions;    Theory of planned behaviour;    Gender and generation survey;    Romania;    Developmental regions;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41118-018-0046-6

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract This paper applies the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to find out the predictors of fertility intentions in Romania, a low-fertility country. We analyse how attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control relate to the intention to have a child among childless individuals and one-child parents. Principal axis factor analysis confirms which items proposed by the Generation and Gender Survey (GGS 2005) act as valid and reliable measures of the suggested theoretical socio-psychological factors. Four parity-specific logistic regression models are applied to evaluate the relationship between the socio-psychological factors and childbearing intentions. Social pressure emerges as the most important aspect in fertility decision-making among childless individuals and one-child parents, and positive attitudes towards childbearing are a strong component in planning for a child. This paper also underlines the importance of the region-specific factors when studying childbearing intentions: planning for the second child significantly differs among the development regions, representing the cultural and socio-economic divisions of the Romanian territory.

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