Comparative research on the influence of incidental exposure to negative fertility-related information on Chinese nulliparous women’s fertility intention
Hongkun Wang, Zonghai Chen, Qiaolei Jiang · 2026
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Casual scrolling exposes women to a stream of personal stories about painful births and hard pregnancies. Hongkun Wang, Zonghai Chen, and Qiaolei Jiang asked whether that incidental exposure changes Chinese women's wish to have children. They surveyed 913 unmarried and married women who had not yet had children.
Exposure to negative fertility stories lowered the intention to have children in both groups. The routes differed, though. For unmarried women, the effect ran through their sense of personal control over the decision. For married women, outside pressures and circumstances mattered more. The authors frame the results with the theory of planned behavior. They offer the findings to policymakers wrestling with China's low birth rate.
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| CREATOR | Hongkun Wang, Zonghai Chen, Qiaolei Jiang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |