This study examines how mothers’ affective experience of motherhood impacts daughters’ fertility intentions; the goal is to understand how adult daughters’ fertility intentions are influenced by their perception of how much their mothers enjoyed mothering and loved their children. A survey of 2000 married women in Japan aged 25–35 with either no children or one child provides data to test hypotheses regarding the impact of daughters’ experience of mothers’ mothering. Regression and structural equation modeling reveal that those who think their mothers enjoyed being a mother and loved children have greater fertility intentions than those who sense strain in their mother’s experience. This article concludes that fertility intentions are long in the making. In addition to being a product of immediate life circumstances, women’s fertility intentions are partly a function of childhood and adolescence experience including affective aspects of the parenting they received.

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为人父母的情感方面及其对生育力的代际影响

这项研究探讨了母亲作为母亲的情感经历如何影响女儿的生育意愿；目的是了解成年女儿的生育意愿如何受到她们对母亲有多享受母性和爱孩子的看法的影响。一项针对日本 2000 名 25-35 岁、没有孩子或只有一个孩子的已婚妇女的调查提供了数据来检验关于女儿的母亲育儿经历影响的假设。回归和结构方程模型表明，那些认为母亲喜欢做母亲并爱孩子的人比那些感受到母亲经历中的压力的​​人有更大的生育意愿。本文的结论是，生育意愿是长期酝酿的。除了直接生活环境的产物之外，妇女的生育意愿部分取决于童年和青少年时期的经历，包括她们所接受的养育方式的情感方面。