家庭背景对大学生生育观念的影响——以重庆市高校为例

The Influence of Family Background on College Students’ Fertility Concepts—Taking Chongqing Colleges and Universities as an Example

处在黄金育龄期的大学生的生育观念对我国未来的生育行为和人口质量具有重要的影响。同时,大学生的家庭背景对其生育观念的影响具有重要的作用。本文以重庆市为例,基于实证研究,调查大学生的家庭背景对生育观念的影响,并且探究其中的影响机制。研究结果显示,大学生的生育观念与家庭背景存在相关,具体而言,家庭环境因素中的父母受教育程度会影响大学生的生育意愿,家庭观念中的父母期望生育孩子数量与大学生生育偏好数量显著相关,其他因素则未体现显著性影响。因此,在生育政策研究制定时,不仅要考虑大学生个体因素,还要切实考虑其家庭背景因素,对其父母的生育政策宣传可能会对大学生生育意愿提高产生传递效应。

The fertility concepts of college students in their prime reproductive years have an important impact on the future fertility behavior and population quality in China. At the same time, the family background of college students plays an important role in influencing their fertility concepts. This paper takes Chongqing as an example to investigate the influence of college students’ family background on their fertility concepts based on an empirical study, and to explore the influence mechanisms. The results of the study show that college students’ fertility concepts are correlated with their family backgrounds. Specifically, the education level of parents in the family environment affects college students’ fertility intentions, and the number of children expected by parents in the family concepts is significantly correlated with the number of college students’ fertility preferences, while the other factors do not have a significant effect. Therefore, when researching and formulating fertility policies, not only the individual factors of college students should be taken into account, but also their family background factors should be effectively considered, and the propaganda of fertility policies to their parents may have a transmission effect on the increase of college students’ fertility intentions.