This study examined the effect of three socialization agents--family, mass media, and school--on students' desired family size in a recursive causal model. It attempted to investigate the school effect on students' desired family size through student achievement on population education. / In the model, family background measured by family income, mass media exposure, school characteristics, and age were treated as exogenous variables which affect students' desired family size directly and indirectly through a set of endogenous variables: teacher performance, educational expectation, student general academic ability, population awareness and mobility attitudes. / The sample was drawn using the method of stratified random sampling with unequal probability of selection. Self-administered questionnaires and tests were the instruments used in collecting the data. Data were analyzed by use of the path analysis technique; decomposition of effects was calculated to help obtain a clearer description of the pattern of effects in the model. / The findings indicate that family income and school characteristics are two strong exogenous variables which mediate their effects on students' desired family size through educational expectation and teacher performance. Mass media exposure also mediates its effects through educational expectation. It was found that educational expectation has the strongest direct effect on students' desired family size. The model reveals the important role of education in general and population education in particular on student desired family size, as reflected by the significant path from the educational expectation and population awareness variables to the desired family size of students. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-11, Section: A, page: 3318. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75437 |
| Contributors | JOHANSYAH, MARLIANI., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 219 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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