Miller W B
Transnational Family Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94306.
Demography. 1992 May;29(2):265-85.
Childbearing motivation may be conceptualized as based upon psychological traits and shaped by experiences during childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. This paper explores what those traits and developmental experiences are. Two measures of childbearing motivation, one positive and the other negative, are described. Using a sample of 362 married men and 354 married women, the paper systematically examines the factors associated with these measures. In addition to a set of basic personality traits, these factors include parental characteristics, teenage experiences, and a number of variables from young adult behavior domains such as marriage, education, work, religion, and parental relationships. Stepwise multiple regression analyses lead to two final constrained, simultaneous-equation regression models. These models indicate the importance of both personality traits and diverse life-cycle experiences in the development of childbearing motivation, the differential gender distribution of predictors, and the different experiential antecedents of positive and negative motivation.
生育动机可以被概念化为基于心理特质，并受到童年、青少年和成年早期经历的塑造。本文探讨了这些特质和发展经历是什么。描述了两种生育动机的测量方法，一种是积极的，另一种是消极的。本文以362名已婚男性和354名已婚女性为样本，系统地研究了与这些测量方法相关的因素。除了一组基本的人格特质外，这些因素还包括父母的特征、青少年时期的经历，以及来自青年成人行为领域的一些变量，如婚姻、教育、工作、宗教和亲子关系。逐步多元回归分析得出了两个最终的受限联立方程回归模型。这些模型表明了人格特质和不同生命周期经历在生育动机发展中的重要性、预测因素的性别差异分布，以及积极和消极动机的不同经验前因。
