Demographic determinants of parental labor motivation types

Abstract

Rapid development of information society was followed by pluralism of cultures and tendencies influencing formation of axiological society pillars, including the family culture formation. It results in transformation of different types of parenthood motivation, which determines reproductive strategies and domestic life forms. Therefore, study of social and demographic determinants, associated with parental motivation and reproductive behaviour types has become the current line of research. Relationship between social and demographic characteristics of respondents and their motivation content was determined with the help of Cramer, Kruskal-Wallis and Chi-square tests. Thereby it was found that the content-related motivation type is independent of gender, age and marital status of a respondent. The sibship size has appeared to be the only social and demographic characteristic significantly related to the motivation type. In this case, the age of children is unrelated to the parental motivation in content. However, it was found that respondents with the “pure” motivation types had fewer children as compared to respondents with the “mixed” or the “undetermined” motivation types.