Abstract
Introduction: A look at the evolution of the world shows that in the last three decades, women's fertility has undergone a shift so that, according to Giddens, "among the changes that are taking place nowadays, the importance of none is as great as that of individuals' personal lives. It includes sex, emotional life, marriage and family going on".
Methods: The research is a correlational survey that 135 married female students aged 20-50 years were randomly selected by stratified sampling method. Data collection tools included two questionnaires of Social Development and Renovation (MSDQ) and Fertility and Infertility Changes Questionnaire.
Results: It showed that there was a significant relationship between all the subscales of the predictor variable and the criterion variable, with the mean being upward. Its direction was negative and indirect. The emotional neutrality subscale had the highest correlation coefficient among all subscales (-0.61). In the two-variable regression analysis, individualism subscale (-0.53) explained the most amount of criterion variables.
Condusions: The relationship between social modernization and fertility, infertility, as shown in this study, is an inverse one, namely in the deprived areas of Golestan province and in rural areas far from the possibilities of this relationship. Areas of prosperity and development, close to downtown and larger cities, are witnessing lower population growth. Therefore, in order to achieve a desired level of fertility in society, measures must be taken to effectively influence women's attitudes toward fertility, especially in educated people with regard to social modernization factors.