More children, more "efficacy": the relationship between fertility and self-efficacy among the post-80 s and post-90 s generations.

ABSTRACT: Fertility punishment is a powerful interpretation of the low birth rate in contemporary China, but it is not consistent with the fact that the proportion of second children has been increasing year by year for some time. From the perspective of Bandura's "Self-efficacy", based on the post-80 s and post-90 s youth samples in the Psychology and Behavior Investigation of Chinese Residents 2021, this paper explores the quantitative relationship between the number of children and individual self-efficacy. The data indicates that: (1) Fertility is closely linked to self-efficacy, with young people who have two children exhibiting higher self-efficacy; (2) The quantitative relationship between the number of children and self-efficacy varies based on parental roles-men/fathers show almost no chang

SUBMITTER: Wei H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11533381 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature