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Abstrakt
The article discusses the conditioning of attitudes towards maternity among young unmarried women, students of the final year of study. The objective of the report is determination of the relationship between the preference of values and the cognitive aspects of an attitude towards maternity: intention to bear a child and beliefs regarding maternity. It was found that remaining in a relationship, the religiousness of women, and low level of negative beliefs regarding maternity, especially the conviction that a child requires too much devotion, favour the maternal intention. Considering values, the preference of values from the category conservation (tradition and conformity), as well as from the category self-transcendence (benevolence) are conducive to the intention to bear a child, whereas this intention is weakened by the preference for the value: self-direction. Negative beliefs regarding maternity co-occur with the preference for values from the category self-enhancement (power, achievement, hedonism), while these beliefs are reduced by the preference for values from the category conservation (tradition and conformity), and the category self-transcendence (benevolence). The results confirm the assumptions by Schwartz (1992) that the adjacent values in a circular structure model may be co-pursued, whereas the values placed across from each other cannot be pursued simultaneously, because their goals are opposing.