Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Family Studies

ISSN

1322-9400

e-ISSN

1839-3543

Svazek periodika

31

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

464-484

Kód UT WoS článku

001392826600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85214392350