Brauner-Otto Sarah R
Mississippi State University.
Popul Res Policy Rev. 2013 Feb 1;32(1):1-24. doi: 10.1007/s11113-012-9261-6.
The relationship between attitudes and individual behavior is at the core of virtually all demographic theories of fertility. This paper extends our understanding of fertility behavior by exploring how psychic costs of childbearing and contraceptive use, conceptualized as attitudes about children and contraception, are related to the transition from high fertility and little contraceptive use to lower fertility and wide spread contraceptive use. Using data from rural Nepal I examine models of the relationship between multiple, setting-specific attitudes about children and contraception and the hazard of contraceptive use to limit childbearing. Specific attitude measures attempt to capture the relative value of children versus consumer goods, the religiously based value of children, and the acceptability of contraceptive use. Findings demonstrate that multiple measures of women's attitudes about children and contraception were all independently related to their fertility limitation behavior.
态度与个体行为之间的关系几乎是所有生育人口学理论的核心。本文通过探讨生育和避孕的心理成本(被概念化为对孩子和避孕的态度)如何与从高生育率和低避孕使用率向低生育率和广泛避孕使用率的转变相关,扩展了我们对生育行为的理解。利用尼泊尔农村的数据,我研究了关于孩子和避孕的多种特定情境态度与使用避孕措施以限制生育的风险之间的关系模型。具体的态度测量试图捕捉孩子与消费品的相对价值、基于宗教的孩子价值以及避孕使用的可接受性。研究结果表明,女性对孩子和避孕的多种态度测量都与她们的生育限制行为独立相关。