Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F19194951%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000006" target="_blank" >RIV/19194951:_____/25:N0000006 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13229400.2025.2450030" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13229400.2025.2450030</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2025.2450030" target="_blank" >10.1080/13229400.2025.2450030</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness
Original language description
Decisions to remain childfree are becoming more common across many of the world’s affluent societies. This study asks how citizens' values relate to decisions not to have children? It utilizes cross-national data drawn from Wave 7 of the World Values Survey to assess questions posed to respondents in two samples of countries (63 and 90 states). Questions about having children are investigated and are related to measures on postmaterialism by way of descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation analysis, and regression with interaction terms. Results reveal robust and statistically significant negative correlations between postmaterialist values and individuals’ beliefs about whether it is a societal duty to have children. Similarly, higher levels of postmaterialism are associated with respondents attributing stronger priority to protecting the environment and also are associated with more liberal views on reproductive rights and abortion. Concurrently, in materialist societies, societal duties to have children are more significant, restrictive views on abortion are more prevalent, and respondents tend to favour economic growth and job creation over environmental protection. These results provide among the first cross-national set of insights on conditions that function as tributaries of voluntarily childlessness – a phenomenon that appears to be increasing in prominence across postmaterialist societies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Family Studies
ISSN
1322-9400
e-ISSN
1839-3543
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
464-484
UT code for WoS article
001392826600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85214392350