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Personality and voluntary childlessness
Margaret Avison,Adrian Furnham +1 more
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In this article, the authors examined the association between personality and childbearing motivation, with a focus on voluntary childlessness, and found that personality plays a considerable role in influencing individuals towards, or away from, parenthood.Abstract:
This study examined the association between personality and childbearing motivation, with a focus on voluntary childlessness. 780 adults completed an online survey assessing the Big Five personality traits, the trait of Independence, desire for parenthood, motivations for choosing childlessness and various other socio-demographic characteristics. Compared to parents or those desiring children, childfree respondents scored significantly higher in Independence and significantly lower in Agreeableness and Extraversion. They were also less religious and more politically liberal. For non-parents, level of desire for parenthood was negatively correlated with Independence and positively correlated with Agreeableness and religiosity. The ideal number of children desired was positively correlated with Agreeableness and religiosity. Childfree respondents who decided early in life not to have children (‘early articulators’) were significantly higher in Independence and Openness to Experience than those who decided later in life. Motivations for childlessness loaded onto five factors, four of which correlated significantly with personality traits. The results suggest that personality plays a considerable role in influencing individuals towards, or away from, parenthood.read more
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Women and Health: the key for sustainable development
Ana Langer,Afaf Ibrahim Meleis,Felicia Marie Knaul,Rifat Atun,Meltem A. Aran,Héctor Arreola-Ornelas,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Agnes Binagwaho,Ruth Bonita,Jacquelyn M Caglia,Mariam Claeson,Justine Davies,Jewel Gausman,Caroline G. Glickman,Annie D Kearns,Tamil Kendall,Rafael Lozano,Naomi Seboni,Gita Sen,Siriorn Sindhu,Miriam Temin,Julio Frenk +21 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that gender-transformative policies are needed to enable women to integrate their social, biological, and occupational roles and function to their full capacity, and that healthy, valued, enabled, and empowered women will make substantial contributions to sustainable development.
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Why Childless Men and Women Give Up on Having Children
Petra Buhr,Johannes Huinink +1 more
TL;DR: Being female, being not employed, and having low scores on the emotional autonomy scale increased the likelihood of giving up on having children, while anticipating positive consequences of parenthood and perceiving influence from parents to have a child decreased it.
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Fertility Desires of Childless Poles: Which Childbearing Motives Matter for Men and Women?:
Monika Mynarska,Jolanta Rytel +1 more
TL;DR: In modern societies, a growing number of people choose to remain childless as mentioned in this paper, which has fundamental consequences for individuals and societies, and it is of paramount importance to understand why these individuals choose not to have children.
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Missing Out on the Parenthood Bonus? Voluntarily Childless in a “Child-friendly” Society
Helen Peterson,Kristina Engwall +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted interviews with Swedish voluntarily childless women and men in order to discuss their understandings of living in a so-called "child-friendly" welfare society where social policies subsidize families with children.
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What Explains the Heritability of Completed Fertility? Evidence from Two Large Twin Studies
TL;DR: Multivariate models indicate that family formation, demographic, and psychological phenotypes leave no residual genetic variance in completed fertility in either dataset, largely consistent across U.S. and U.K. sociocultural contexts.
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Oliver P. John,Sanjay Srivastava +1 more
TL;DR: The Big Five taxonomy as discussed by the authors is a taxonomy of personality dimensions derived from analyses of the natural language terms people use to describe themselves 3 and others, and it has been used for personality assessment.
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The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures ☆
Lewis R. Goldberg,John A. Johnson,Herbert W. Eber,Robert Hogan,Michael C. Ashton,C. Robert Cloninger,Harrison G. Gough +6 more
TL;DR: The International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) as mentioned in this paper has been used as a prototype for public-domain personality measures, focusing on the International personality item pool, which has been widely used for personality measurement.
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