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The Relationship Between Gender Role Attitudes and Fertility Motivation - The Mediating Role of Subjective Social Status and Life Satisfaction

Author(s)

Zhou Yanan, Yang Shucai*

Affiliation(s)

School of Political Science and Law, Jinan University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Abstract

To clarify the relationship and mechanism between gender role concepts and fertility motivation, this study constructed a chained mediation model using data from the China Family Panel Studies and reached the following conclusions: First, gender role concepts can significantly promote fertility motivation through independent mediating channels of subjective social status and life satisfaction, as well as the chained mediating channel of life satisfaction subjective social status, with the independent mediating effect of subjective social status being the highest. Second, emotional joy and responsibility satisfaction are the main motivations for current fertility, traditional family concepts significantly promote fertility motivation, and modern concepts of household division of labor significantly reduce fertility motivation. The research conclusions help us explore the deep reasons for the current low fertility rate in our country from the personal psychological level and provide new ideas for solving the fertility dilemma.

Keywords

Gender Role Attitudes; Fertility Motivation; Subjective Social Status; Life Satisfaction

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