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The effect of competing intentions and behaviour on short-term childbearing intentions and subsequent childbearing

This article examines the effect that intentions to start studying and to enter into employment may have on childbearing intentions and subsequent childbearing. The analysis also includes the impact of the corresponding behaviour: currently studying or being employed. The theoretical background draws on Barber's study of competing attitudes, with an emphasis on competing intentions. Based on survey and register data for Bulgaria, the analyses reveal the effect of competing intentions. For example, the intention to start studying hampers the construction and subsequent realisation of intentions to have a child within 2 years. The actual behaviour of currently studying has the same effect; both effects are most pronounced for intentions to become a parent and for actual entry into parenthood. Inversely, an intention to enter into employment facilitates childbearing intentions and, for men, so does the behaviour of being employed. The latter result holds for women’s intention to have a second child. The findings indicate that when childbearing intentions and realisation are analysed, it is preferable to consider persons with a competing intention to start studying either as a separate group or group them with those who are currently studying, not with those who are not. Logistic regression models and interaction effects are applied for the analyses.

The effect of competing intentions and behaviour on short-term childbearing intentions and subsequent childbearing

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L'effet des intentions et des comportements concurrents sur les intentions de procréation à court terme et la procréation ultérieure
Umfang
Seite(n): 525-548
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, 25(4)

Thema
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Bevölkerung

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Philipov, Dimiter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Deutschland
(wann)
2009

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-204053
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Philipov, Dimiter

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  • 2009

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