Open AccessYoung female students and the motivation dimensions for parenthood
Author(s) -
Djurdja Solesa-Grijak,
Anida Fazlagić
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke/zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0836
pISSN - 0352-5732
DOI - 10.2298/zmsdn1553747s
Subject(s) - psychology , significant difference , developmental psychology , motivation to learn , value (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , dimension (graph theory) , sample (material) , social psychology , mathematics education , medicine , chemistry , physics , mathematics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , machine learning , pure mathematics , computer science
The goal of this paper is establishing whether there is a difference in the motivation for parenthood of the female students, regarding the turn of birth. The research has been done on a convenient sample consisting of 106 female students at the State university of Novi Pazar. In the research, the parenthood Motivation scale has been used. The results have demonstrated that the motivation for parenthood is mostly instrumental and least narcistic with these students. The results of the testing, significance and difference in the motivation for parenthood regarding the turn of birth have demonstrated that, statistically speaking, there is a significant difference in general and instrumental motivation between the first born and the second born. Namely, this dimension is more expressed with the second born questionees [t(82)=-2.446; p<.05]. It has also been demonstrated that the second born questionees have a stronger desire for a child in order to prove oneself, which eventually ascertaines the results of the descriptive analysis of instrumental motivation for parenthood. The research has shown that the female students mostly reduce the motivation for parenthood to its instrumentalization and their desire to have a child to a value of children as they themselves percieve it.