Miller W B
Transnational Family Research Institute, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-7660.
Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr. 1994 May;120(2):223-58.
After briefly reviewing different approaches in the social and behavioral sciences to conceptualize the reasons that humans become motivated to bear children, I present a theoretical framework that incorporates many elements of these approaches. The framework is based on a four-step psychological sequence: the formation of traits, the activation of traits into desires, the translation of desires into intentions, and the implementation of intentions in the form of behavior. I use data from 401 married couples to develop regression models of the two middle steps of this sequence that indicate how childbearing motivational traits lead to childbearing desires and how the latter lead to childbearing intentions. I also develop a regression model that indicates how childbearing motivation affects an individual's perception of his or her spouse's childbearing desires.
在简要回顾社会科学和行为科学中关于人类生育动机概念化的不同方法之后，我提出了一个整合了这些方法诸多要素的理论框架。该框架基于一个四步心理序列：特质的形成、特质激活为欲望、欲望转化为意图，以及意图以行为形式的实施。我使用来自401对已婚夫妇的数据，建立了这个序列中间两个步骤的回归模型，以表明生育动机特质如何导致生育欲望，以及后者如何导致生育意图。我还建立了一个回归模型，以表明生育动机如何影响个体对其配偶生育欲望的认知。
