ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1620780
The influence of childhood socioeconomic status on Chinese female university students' fertility intentions: the chain mediating effect of parental emotional warmth and subjective well-being
Provisionally accepted
- Departent of Psychology, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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Objective: This study examines the impact of childhood socioeconomic status on Chinese female university students’ fertility intentions and the mechanisms by which parental emotional warmth and subjective well-being play a role. Method: A total of 590 female university students at Gannan Medical University completed questionnaires. The childhood socioeconomic status scale, the simplified parenting styles questionnaire, the index of well-being, and fertility intention scale were used to measure childhood socioeconomic status, parental emotional warmth, subjective well-being, and Chinese female university students’ fertility intentions. Results: (1) Childhood socioeconomic status, parental emotional warmth, subjective well-being, and fertility intentions among Chinese female university students were significantly positively correlated; (2) Childhood socioeconomic status significantly and positively predicted the fertility intentions of Chinese female university students; (3) Fathers’ emotional warmth and subjective well-being played separate mediating roles in the influence of childhood socioeconomic status on the fertility intentions of Chinese female university students; and (4) Parental emotional warmth and subjective well-being were chain mediators of the effect of childhood socioeconomic status on Chinese female university students’ fertility intentions.
Keywords: Childhood Socioeconomic Status, Parental emotional warmth, Subjective well-being, Fertility intentions, Chinese female university students
Received: 30 Apr 2025; Accepted: 05 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hua, Mao, Liao, Li, Zhang, Liu and Tang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Hong Tang, Departent of Psychology, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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