NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY AS A PREDICTOR OF PARENTS' LIFE SATISFACTION
NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY AS A PREDICTOR OF PARENTS' LIFE SATISFACTION

Summary/Abstract: It is to be expected that the marital partners' life satisfaction in a given society is closely related to fertility issues and willingness to have children, so any insight into determinants of marital partners' life satisfaction is of utmost theoretical and practical importance. A research was performed with the aim to test the influence of number of children in the family on marital partners' life satisfaction. Five hundred and five marriage couples, i.e. 1010 participants were included in the study. The couples were a representative sample for the City of Zagreb and Zagreb metropolitan area on the variable husbands' education. Two main effects (number of children and gender of the partner) and five covariates (marital partners' age and salary, size of dwelling unit, economic stress/need for economizing) were defined. ANOVA and ANCOVAs including five covariates were performed, the independent variable defining three groups: no child, one child and two and more children in the family.

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