A scientific study of the relationship between leisure and religious lifestyle and attitudes toward childbearing (Case study: 15-49 years old women of reproductive age in Fasa)

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between religious lifestyle and leisure with women's attitudes toward childbearing. The survey approach was employed in this study. Women in Fasa, aged 15 to 49, make up the statistical population. A total of 400 participants were chosen as a sample utilizing a multi-stage sampling approach. The research instrument is a questionnaire that has been tested for validity using the face validity technique and reliability using the internal coordinated method and Cronbach's alpha method. According to the study's descriptive findings, the mean score of women's attitudes toward childbirth in Fasa city is moderate to high. The findings of the study reveal that there is a positive and significant relationship between leisure lifestyle and women's attitudes toward childbearing. Still, no such relationship exists between religious lifestyle and women's views toward childbearing. The relationship between age, number of children, employment, and education and women's views about childbearing is significant among the demographic factors. When the dependent variable is explained in terms of the sum of independent variables, the five variables of the duration of the marriage, occupation, marriage, years of education, and ethnicity are the strongest predictors of women's attitudes toward childbearing, explaining 23 percent of the variance in attitudes toward childbearing, respectively.