Personality Traits and Childbearing Motivation: The mediating role of Psychological Well-being in Married Women, Iran

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1 MA in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

3 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

10.22038/jmrh.2025.79617.2381

Abstract

Background & aim: The childbearing intention is a global and complex common process. It depends on several economic, political, social, and individual factors. Therefore, The present study aims to investigate the communication amongst personality traits and childbearing motivation of married women, it was done considering the mediating role of psychological well-being.
Methods: The method of the present research was descriptive and structural equation type. The statistical population of this research was made up of all married women aged 18 to 45 in Hamedan city from 1 April, 2023 to the end of September 2023. In order to collect data, Childbearing Questionnaire, NEO Five-Factor Inventory Questionnaire and Scale of Psychological Well-being were used. Questionnaires were given to the samples in paper form and in person.
Results: Five personality traits and psychological well-being had a direct effect on the positive and negative childbearing motivation. Also, the result showed that personality traits have an indirect effect on the childbearing motivation through the mediation of psychological well-being (P<0.01). Neuroticism had the largest total increasing effect on negative childbearing motivation ( ) and largest total decreasing effect on positive childbearing motivation  and extraversion had the largest total decreasing effect on negative childbearing motivation and conscientiousness had the largest total increasing effect on positive childbearing motivation .
Conclusion: These findings helped identify the potential mechanisms by which personality contributes to individual childbearing motivation, as well as providing insights into the development of promoting interventions based on psychological well-being.

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Journal of Midwifery and Reproductive Health

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Available Online from 26 April 2026

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