期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2001
卷号：10
期号：4-5 (54-55)
页码：655-683
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：A serious problem of low fertility in Central European countries is discussed and the research was planned with the aim to find out the determinants of low fertility motivation (number of children) of married couples in the Croatian socio-cultural context. Research was performed on a representative sample of the City and metropolitan area of Zagreb comprising 505 married couples. Five groups of potential predictors or correlates of number of children in the family were defined according to the review of pertinent research literature: characteristics of marital partners, marital processes, objective and subjective economic family status, marriage characteristics and partners' experience of social environment. One hundred and five variables were entered into equation. By multiple regression 49% of the variance of the dependent variable has been explained. Logical analysis of the nature of variables revealed possible positive determinants of the number of children in the family. These were: wife's religiosity, wife's ego-involvement, husband's family involvement, husband's marriage traditionalism and husband's prosocial orientation, while negative determinants appeared to be: the importance of security as experienced by husband and husband's experience of life stress. Numerous correlates of the number of children in the family are represented as difficulties of having children, such as: increased domestic work load for both partners, economic stress, especially experienced by husbands, and lower marital harmony in terms of lower social intimacy. The main conclusion of the research was that in the Croatian socio- -economic and cultural context a larger number of children in the family was mostly dependent on the traditional values system of marriage partners. This system of values gave the children high priority in reaching a meaningful life in spite of sacrificing other values and an unconstrained lifestyle.
