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The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health
Antinatalism is an umbrella term for numerous moral dilemmas associated with procreation. In the past few years, the deterioration of environmental conditions, social difficulties, global worsening of people’s mental health, and pandemics have induced discussion about antinatalism. Therefore, we aim...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294154 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013575 |
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author | Karuga, Filip Franciszek Szmyd, Bartosz Petroniec, Karolina Walter, Aleksandra Pawełczyk, Agnieszka Sochal, Marcin Białasiewicz, Piotr Strzelecki, Dominik Respondek-Liberska, Maria Tadros-Zins, Monika Gabryelska, Agata |
author_facet | Karuga, Filip Franciszek Szmyd, Bartosz Petroniec, Karolina Walter, Aleksandra Pawełczyk, Agnieszka Sochal, Marcin Białasiewicz, Piotr Strzelecki, Dominik Respondek-Liberska, Maria Tadros-Zins, Monika Gabryelska, Agata |
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description | Antinatalism is an umbrella term for numerous moral dilemmas associated with procreation. In the past few years, the deterioration of environmental conditions, social difficulties, global worsening of people’s mental health, and pandemics have induced discussion about antinatalism. Therefore, we aimed to characterize antinatalists in the Polish population in terms of the frequency and description of the main reasons behind this phenomenon. The cross-sectional study was performed in the Polish population. An online, four-part survey was performed between 19 and 25 January 2022. The study group comprised 1240 respondents. Antinatalists (n = 472, 38%) were defined as people who do not have children and want to be childless in the future, whereas pronatalists (n = 768, 62%) consisted of people who want to have offspring in the future and/or already have children. The opinion that climate change is a significant reason not to have a child appeared twice as often among antinatalists. Additionally, the performed binary logistic regression model highlighted the importance of the fear of climate change as an independent factor facilitating an antinatalistic attitude. Regarding females, the following factors discouraging them from having a child were observed: fear of child’s congenital diseases, pregnancy complications, dissatisfaction with medical services, and fear of exacerbation of maternal chronic diseases. Anxiety, depression, and stress were not found to be statistically different between pro- and antinatalist groups. However, further analysis revealed that female antinatalists were significantly more depressive and anxious. Our study helps us to understand why, as mentioned beforehand, around 38% of respondents prefer to stay childless. In conclusion, antinatalism views have become relatively prevalent in society, and its reasons include environmental antinatalism and medical factors, including depression and anxiety. However, better access to medical services and changes in climate politics were not found to be significant factors in encouraging society to decide to have offspring. |
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spelling | pubmed-96027472022-10-27 The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health Karuga, Filip Franciszek Szmyd, Bartosz Petroniec, Karolina Walter, Aleksandra Pawełczyk, Agnieszka Sochal, Marcin Białasiewicz, Piotr Strzelecki, Dominik Respondek-Liberska, Maria Tadros-Zins, Monika Gabryelska, Agata Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Antinatalism is an umbrella term for numerous moral dilemmas associated with procreation. In the past few years, the deterioration of environmental conditions, social difficulties, global worsening of people’s mental health, and pandemics have induced discussion about antinatalism. Therefore, we aimed to characterize antinatalists in the Polish population in terms of the frequency and description of the main reasons behind this phenomenon. The cross-sectional study was performed in the Polish population. An online, four-part survey was performed between 19 and 25 January 2022. The study group comprised 1240 respondents. Antinatalists (n = 472, 38%) were defined as people who do not have children and want to be childless in the future, whereas pronatalists (n = 768, 62%) consisted of people who want to have offspring in the future and/or already have children. The opinion that climate change is a significant reason not to have a child appeared twice as often among antinatalists. Additionally, the performed binary logistic regression model highlighted the importance of the fear of climate change as an independent factor facilitating an antinatalistic attitude. Regarding females, the following factors discouraging them from having a child were observed: fear of child’s congenital diseases, pregnancy complications, dissatisfaction with medical services, and fear of exacerbation of maternal chronic diseases. Anxiety, depression, and stress were not found to be statistically different between pro- and antinatalist groups. However, further analysis revealed that female antinatalists were significantly more depressive and anxious. Our study helps us to understand why, as mentioned beforehand, around 38% of respondents prefer to stay childless. In conclusion, antinatalism views have become relatively prevalent in society, and its reasons include environmental antinatalism and medical factors, including depression and anxiety. However, better access to medical services and changes in climate politics were not found to be significant factors in encouraging society to decide to have offspring. MDPI 2022-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9602747/ /pubmed/36294154 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013575 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Karuga, Filip Franciszek Szmyd, Bartosz Petroniec, Karolina Walter, Aleksandra Pawełczyk, Agnieszka Sochal, Marcin Białasiewicz, Piotr Strzelecki, Dominik Respondek-Liberska, Maria Tadros-Zins, Monika Gabryelska, Agata The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health |
title | The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health |
title_full | The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health |
title_fullStr | The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health |
title_full_unstemmed | The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health |
title_short | The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health |
title_sort | causes and role of antinatalism in poland in the context of climate change, obstetric care, and mental health |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294154 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013575 |
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