The Effect of Life History Strategies on College Students’ Fertility Intention: The Mediating Role of Experience of Meaning in Life

本研究旨在考察生命史策略对大学生生育意愿的影响，检验人生意义感所起的中介作用。本研究招募了450名在校大学生进行问卷施测。结果发现，生命史策略的亲密关注维度、期望生育子女数与意义存在这三个变量之间均存在显著正相关。中介分析表明，亲密关注不能直接预测期望生育子女数，而是完全通过生命意义感间接影响期望生育子女数，即生命意义感在亲密关注及期望生育子女数之间起完全中介作用。The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of life history strategies on college students’ fertility intentions, examine the mediating role of the experience of meaning in life. 450 college students were recruited. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between the focus on intimacy dimension of life history strategy, the expected number of children and meaning in life. The mediating analysis showed that focus on intimacy could not directly predict the expected number of children, but indirectly affected the expected number of children through the experience of meaning, that is, the sense of meaning of life played a complete mediating role between focus on intimacy and the expected number of children.