Zabihollah Kavehfarsani; Pouran Raeissi
Abstract
the purpose of the present research was to investigating childbearing tendency and related factors among married youth in chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. The research design was correlational based on structural equations. The statistical population of this research consisted of all married young ...
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the purpose of the present research was to investigating childbearing tendency and related factors among married youth in chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. The research design was correlational based on structural equations. The statistical population of this research consisted of all married young people (men and women) aged 18 to 40 living in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in 2023. The sample consisted of 803 married young people selected according to cluster sampling method in 6 centers of the city. (Shahrkord, Borujen, Farsan, Lordegan, Kiar, and Saman) selected and answered the questionnaire of The components affecting childbearing intention questionnaire by Nakhaee & Khajeh (2022). Data were analyzed through Pearson correlation and structural equations using SPSS23 and SEM-PLS software. The results showed that 67% (538 people) of the present research sample had childbearing tendency. Also, education, age, type of residence, increasing the duration of marriage of young people, Ideal number of children, subjective norm including the persuasion of parents, friends and relatives and perceived control including economic factors, health and working and educational conditions can have an impact on the attitude towards childbearing tendency. The results obtained and in the analysis of structural equations of these results can be seen quite objectively that a factor such as childbearing can not be considered affected by a particular factor, but have a very complex multifactorial effect that should not be simply ignored, because this is the future. It may endanger the life of the population and create other social issues and endanger the society, and the only factor that can bring all the factors within it and organize it in order to solve the relevant issues can be a factor such as policy-making.
