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Posterity and population growth: fertility intention among a cohort of Nigerian adolescents

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  • Fausat M. Ibrahim

    (University of Ibadan
    Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria)

  • Oyedunni S. Arulogun

    (University of Ibadan)

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Population growth is probably the greatest global challenge of the twenty-first century and fertility is a central element of this growth. Fertility is a human attribute which depends almost entirely on social, economic, political, cultural and psychological frameworks, making fertility intention an element of what individuals learn from a very young age as part of their socialisation into society. The fundamental significance of socio-psychological, environmental and cultural factors in what adolescents are assimilating on fertility cannot be exaggerated, yet, relevant information is limited. Eight factors deduced from ecological model and theory of planned behaviour were used to predict fertility intention among a cohort of Nigerian adolescents, using cross-sectional design. Mean fertility intention was 4.06 ± 1.34. Age and religion had no effect, but gender did. Self esteem, perceived parental expectation of fertility, attitude towards fertility and peer-related subjective norm are significant predictors. Media and ethnic attitude are insignificant predictors of, but are significantly related to fertility intention. Attitude towards a four-child family and perceived behavioural control yielded insignificant relationships with, and also failed to predict fertility intention. Perceived parental expectation of fertility, an interpersonal factor of the ecological model is the single most important predictor (β = 0.707, R2 = 0.506, r = 0.711, and partial r = 0.710). Fertility intention points towards fertility decline, though sluggish and diminutive, thereby failing to reflect the need of Nigeria’s population pyramid to thin out from the base.

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  • Fausat M. Ibrahim & Oyedunni S. Arulogun, 2020. "Posterity and population growth: fertility intention among a cohort of Nigerian adolescents," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 25-52, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joprea:v:37:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s12546-019-09230-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s12546-019-09230-z
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