Authors : Nastran Asadi, Marzieh Kaboudi, Hossein Ashtarian and Nader Salari
Abstract: Fertility is the most important factor of demographic change which is affective on the number, size and structure of the population. Changing family pattern, full-time employment of women, the influence of modernity and Western lifestyles has led to changes in the role of women in all aspects of life, including childbearing. Attitudes toward childbearing, social pressure to bear children and the control over the needed facilities and support resources are three main factors of intent to fertility. Given the decision for bringing or not bringing the child isn’t formed randomly as well as the need toperform a theory-based study on the employment and childbearing of women, in this study using the “perceived need” model, the childbearing intent in women is examined. This analytical cross-sectional study was done on 310 married employed and unemployed 18-45 years old women referred to clinics of the Asadabad city using perceived need questionnaireto childbearing. The results showed that there is no significant difference between the intention of childbearing, perceived need to childbearing, subjective norms about childbearing as well as attitudes to childbearing outcomes in the two groups of employed and unemployed. But in the perceived control about childbearing, there is significant difference between the two groups. The intention of childbearing among working women and housewives (unemployed) is similar in theemployed and unemployed women and the employment do not have a negative impact on childbearing plans.
Nastran Asadi, Marzieh Kaboudi, Hossein Ashtarian and Nader Salari, 2016. The Comparison of Plans to Child Bearing among Employed Women and Housewives Based on the Perceived Need Model. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 10: 256-260.