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19 Population Psychology

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Population psychology as a discipline and as an organizational entity originated in the early 1970s, in an effort to address concerns about population problems. The chapter reviews the literature about the effects of family structure on children, emphasizing tests of prominent theoretical models, such as the Confluence Model, Admixture Hypothesis, and Dilution theory. In addition, the chapter contains a literature review about the causes and consequences of childlessness and the one-child family. Psychological theories of fertility and family planning, notably the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Traits-Desires-Intentions-Behavior model, are described and evaluated. The expanding literature about behavioral genetic research on fertility and reproduction is reviewed. Finally, psychological approaches to the study of migration and Global Warming are presented. The chapter aims to demonstrate that psychological thinking can be useful for other disciplines to move population studies forward in the future, as multi-disciplinary scholars “jump together” to address population issues.

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The authors wish to thank Warren Miller, Larry Severy, and Vaida Thompson, who reviewed the paper and made cogent and helpful comments that influenced our thinking and our writing. We also thank the editor of the handbook, Dudley Poston, who also read our chapter carefully and made helpful comments.

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