Influences on the Link Between Fertility Intentions and Behavioural Outcomes

Spéder, Zsolt; Kapitány, Balázs

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9401-5_4

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“…Previous research has indicated that SS, as a social determinant of health, plays an important role in promoting healthy conditions in people’s lives. Similar to our study, findings have been reported by other studies in Germany [ 13 ], Iran [ 14 ], and in four European countries [ 27 ]. According to SS theories, relationships are not necessarily sources of SS unless the people perceive them as available and suitable sources of support for their needs [ 28 ].…”

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confidence: 93%

Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran

Araban

Karimy

Armoon

et al. 2020

J. Egypt. Public. Health. Assoc.

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Background: One of the most important demographic challenges over the recent three decades in the world has been a significant fall in the fertility rate. This study aimed to investigate factors related to childbearing intentions among a sample of Iranian women. Methods: A cross-sectional study of a sample of Iranian married women attending 8 centers in Saveh was conducted in 2015. A total of 483 married women 15-49 years old participated in this study. A questionnaire was used to collect data about demographics, attitude, subjective norms, marital satisfaction, social support, hopefulness, and behavioral intentions of childbearing. Results: Overall, 62% of women in the study intended to have children in the next 2 years. The group willing to have children had a higher score on attitude, subjective norms, hopefulness, perceived social support, and marital satisfaction compared to the group unwilling to have children. Also, the regression results revealed that the variables of age, literacy status, employment status, husband literacy, women and husband occupation status, attitude, subjective norms, hopefulness, perceived social support, and marital satisfaction were significant predicting factors for childbearing intention (P < 0.05). Conclusions and recommendations: The findings highlighted the importance of psychological factors such as marital satisfaction and social support in the childbearing process. Thus, health system planners should pay more attention to these determinants of fertility intention.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Factors related to childbearing intentions among women: a cross-sectional study in health centers, Saveh, Iran

Araban

Karimy

Armoon

et al. 2020

J. Egypt. Public. Health. Assoc.

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“…The aim of our study is to highlight the determinants-at the micro level-of the shortterm fertility intentions of women and men living as couples in Italy in the first decade of the 21st Century. We believe, as suggested by previous research (Spéder and Kapitány 2009;Begall and Mills 2011;Berrington and Pattaro 2013;Cavalli and Koblas 2013;Vignoli et al 2013;Spéder and Kapitány 2014), that a gender perspective is important, as male and female intentions are differently correlated to actual fertility.…”

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confidence: 61%

Fertility Intentions in Times of Rising Economic Uncertainty: Evidence from Italy from a Gender Perspective

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This study analyses the socio-economic determinants of the short-term fertility plans of Italian women and men living as couples, before and shortly after the onset of the 2007/2008 Great Recession, which may have affected their reproductive plans through a climate of rising economic uncertainty. Using multilevel models, we investigate how fertility intentions are related to the individual characteristics of the respondents and their partners as well as to changes in the economic context. The findings confirm that the Great Recession modified the determinants of short-term fertility intentions differently for women and men. Among the most relevant issues, we outline the importance of couples’ working conditions and the contextual labour market indicators.

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“…In particular, we examine how fertility ideals evolve as people age, how patterns differ by gender, and whether other factors-such as changes in an individual's partnership or employment domain-lead to changes in fertility ideals. Our study contributes to the large body of literature that has explored different concepts of fertility desires and intentions in Germany (e.g., Buhr and Kuhnt 2012;Heiland et al 2008;Keim et al 2009;Kuhnt 2013;Kuhnt and Trappe 2013;Lutz et al 2013;Marbach and Tölke 2013;Rost 2005;Ruckdeschel 2007), for other countries (e.g., Bernardi et al 2015;Iacovou and Tavares 2011;Klobas and Ajzen 2015;Liefbroer 2009;Miller 2011;Morgan 1982;Quesnel-Vallée and Morgan 2004;Spéder and Kapitány 2015;Thomson 1997; Thomson and Hoem 1998;Vignoli et al 2013) or across countries (e.g., Balbo and Mills 2011;Kapitány and Spéder 2013;Philipov et al 2006;Puur et al 2008;Régnier-Loilier et al 2011;Testa 2007;Testa and Basten 2014).…”

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confidence: 79%