Tartakovsky Eugene, Mizrahi Mor
The School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2025 Sep 3;16:1612384. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1612384. eCollection 2025.
In this study, we propose a new conceptualization of childbearing motivations and examine their links with personal values and socio-demographic variables during the preconception period.
To test our model, we conducted a cross-sectional study using a stratified sample of young Israeli Jews without children (aged 18-35, = 1,122).
We found that childbearing motivations form four clusters, reflecting different goals people strive to achieve through childbirth. We referred to these clusters as life enrichment, authority, preservation, and perpetuity. The four clusters formed a two-dimensional circumplex paralleling the structure of values. The pattern of connections between childbearing motivations and personal values corroborated the existence of a contextualization mechanism linking general and specific motivations. In addition, the indirect effects of socio-demographic variables on childbearing motivations through personal values showed that differences in childbearing motivations across socio-demographic groups may be partly attributed to variations in general motivational goals that characterize the groups.
在本研究中，我们提出了一种关于生育动机的新概念，并在孕前阶段考察了它们与个人价值观及社会人口统计学变量之间的联系。
为了检验我们的模型，我们采用分层抽样的方法，对1122名无子女的年轻以色列犹太裔（年龄在18至35岁之间）进行了一项横断面研究。
我们发现生育动机形成了四个集群，反映了人们试图通过生育来实现的不同目标。我们将这些集群称为生活充实、权威、传承和永恒。这四个集群形成了一个二维环状结构，与价值观的结构相似。生育动机与个人价值观之间的联系模式证实了存在一种将一般动机和特定动机联系起来的情境化机制。此外，社会人口统计学变量通过个人价值观对生育动机产生的间接影响表明，不同社会人口统计学群体在生育动机上的差异可能部分归因于各群体所具有的一般动机目标的差异。
