Individual and couple tastes for children: Theoretical,methodological, and empirical issues |
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| Institution: | 1. Forensic Medicine Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland;2. Department of Forensic Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, Medical Research Center (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;3. Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, Medical Research Center (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland;4. Department of Pathology, The Welfare District of Southwest Finland, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland;5. Section of Forensic Pathology, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;6. Center of Internal Medicine and Respiratory Medicine, Medical Research Center (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland;7. Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark;8. Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland |
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| Abstract: | A comparison is made between two alternatives for explaining family size decisions: a psychological model based on the individual needs of the spouses and a social psychological model based on the husband-wife relationship. By use of higher order factors within the context of structural equation models, it is shown that the two approaches can be derived as special cases of a single, integrative framework. In this way, a theory is developed and tested which explicitly represents the family-size decision process as both an individual and joint experience of the spouses. |
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