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NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY AS A PREDICTOR OF PARENTS' LIFE SATISFACTION
Josip OBRADOVIĆ
Mira ČUDINA-OBRADOVIĆ
Sažetak
It is to be expected that the marital partners' life satisfaction in a
given society is closely related to fertility issues and willingness to
have children, so any insight into determinants of marital partners'
life satisfaction is of utmost theoretical and practical importance.
A research was performed with the aim to test the influence
of number of children in the family on marital partners' life
satisfaction. Five hundred and five marriage couples, i.e. 1010
participants were included in the study. The couples were a representative
sample for the City of Zagreb and Zagreb metropolitan
area on the variable husbands' education. Two main effects
(number of children and gender of the partner) and five covariates
(marital partners' age and salary, size of dwelling unit, economic
stress/need for economizing) were defined. ANOVA and
ANCOVAs including five covariates were performed, the independent
variable defining three groups: no child, one child and
two and more children in the family. The statistically significant
difference between these groups was obtained only after variables
economic stress/need for economizing as perceived by
marital partners were included into analysis together with other
covariates. In that case the highest level of life satisfaction was
expressed by parents having two and more children. The obtained
results clearly demonstrated the importance of economic
factors for marital partners' life satisfaction, more precisely the
subjective experience of the family's economic situation. No influence
of gender of the marital partner nor the interaction between
two main effects was found after the complete control for
covariates was performed.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
20000
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Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2001.
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