East Asian low marriage and birth rates: The role of life history strategy, culture, and social status affordance

• Main Authors: YONG, Jose, LI, Norman P., JONASON, Peter K., TAN, Yi Wen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Social status affordance; Mating; Social status; Fertility; Life history theory; Cultural differences; East Asia; Asian Studies; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2805; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4062/viewcontent/East_Asian_low_marriage_and_birth_rates_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Although economic development is broadly associated with low fertility, countries with a predominantly East Asian cultural population exhibit the lowest fertility rates in the developed world. This study (N = 243) examined social status affordance (SSA) as a novel factor underlying cultural variatio...