Explanation of the Cognitive Community of the Relationship Between Lifestyle with Women's Tendency Towards Childbearing

Abstract

The present research has explained the cognitive community of the relationship between lifestyle and women's attitude toward childbearing. The method used in this research is survey. The statistical population consisted of the women with 15-49 year-old in reproductive age in Fasa city that 400 people were selected as the sample and were selected by random sampling. The research tool is a questionnaire that to determine its validity has been used from face validity method and to determine the reliability has been used from internal co-ordinate method by Cronbach 's alpha. The descriptive results of the study indicate that the average score of women attitude to childbearing in Fasa city is high. Analytical findings of the research show that consumption of media and leisure time have positive and significant effect on women's attitude towards childbearing. Among the demographic variables, the relationship between age and education with women's attitude towards childbearing is significant. Explanation of dependent variable in terms of total independent variables indicates that the duration of marriage, number of children, age and social support are the most powerful predictors of women's attitude towards childbearing and total variables are able to explain 25.8 percent of variance of attitude to childbearing.