Role of individualism on fertility intention among women who are about to marry (The case of Neishabour City)

This paper aims to determine fertility intention among women who are about to marry in Nayshaboor city and also assess the role of individualism in fertility intention. This is based on a survey conducted among 415 women aged 10-39 who are about to marry and attended premarital counselling courses to do premarital routin examinations during months of Aban and Azar 1392 (November & December, 2013). The instrument of data collection was a constructed questionnaire. Dependent variable was fertility intention and independent variable was the scale of individualism. Confounding variables comprised of attitudes on values of children and selected demographic variables. The results showed that individualism is a determinant factor of fertility intentions among new generation of womne and other correlates such as education and employment impart their influence through individualism. Therefore, it seems that if population programs could make childbearing compatible with evidences of women’s self actualisations such as education, employment and other social activities, they can be successful in encouraging childbearing among new generation.