چکیده:
Fertility behavior based on stimuli, decision making process, and related attitudes can be considered as social behavior that occurs in a social environment. The general objective of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting the tendency towards childbearing among married women in Mazandaran province. The sample size of this study is 100 people who were selected by purposive and non-random sampling. The data gathering instrument was a questionnaire in which the extracted variables were from the literature review and the conceptual framework of the research. The questionnaire consisted of a questionnaire of personal information and a childbearing tendency questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha has been used to investigate the reliability of the research instrument. In order to analyze the data, the SPSS software and related tests were used. To study the tendency toward childbearing, the variables of social engagement, social acceptance, gender socialization, religiosity, fashion, and marital satisfaction have been used which are measured by Likert scale. Findings of the research show that there is a significant relationship between religious orientation, gender socialization, social acceptance, and marital satisfaction and tendency to childbearing.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Study of Social Factors Affecting the Tendency towards Childbearing among Young Women in Mazandaran Province Majedeh Gholipour *1 Khadijeh Ghazzani 2 Received 28 September 2017; Accepted 10 January 2018 Abstract Fertility behavior based on stimuli, decision making process, and related attitudes can be considered as social behavior that occurs in a social environment.
The general objective of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting the tendency towards childbearing among married women in Mazandaran province.
In a research named sociological study of the tendency to childbearing and some related factors in Tabriz city, there was a significant positive correlation between the tendency to childbearing and the social participation variable and there was no linear relationship between tendency to childbirth and social acceptance.
In a research named factors affecting the inclination to childbearing among women aged 15-49 referring to health centers in Jahrom city, There is a significant relationship between gender socialization and the desire to have a child ( Pilten and Rahmanian, 2014).
Findings The findings of present study is in line with the study carried out by Parnian & Enayat (1392) which showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between the new technologies of data and communication and the use of mobile and its related devices with the tendency to childbearing, as well as with the study of Ghorbani (1395), Social networking and tendency to childbearing among students of Mashhad University of medical sciences and Ferdowsi, which showed that the use of virtual social networks has not affected the decline in the tendency towards fertility.