Empirical Determinants of Development of Infertility Behavior in Indian Youth: A Bounded Rationality Perspective in Health Decision Making

Abstract

Millennia’s infertility-oriented behaviour has already been explored from individual perspective, institutional perspective as well as from organisational perspective, from social and dogmatic perspective as well. Each approach has its own merits and demerits. Ideally the construct’s focus of study revolves around Millennia’s own individual derived attributes, traits, inclinations as well as contingent supports and influences that shape up the phenomenon. The recent review of literature suggests that diverse factors, which are internal to Millennia’s cognitions and contingent to Millennia’s reproductive decision making collectively shape the phenomenon. The existing literature calls for emphasis on individual traits, aspects of traits, habits, misinformation, and lack of responsibility in behaviour. The aspect of ‘triggered infertility’ has gained currency on the notion that experienced inability to reproduce is self-made or self-triggered instead of imposed from outside the environment. The reported second major influence is from the ‘perceptions’ of natural environments and third from the vocational/work related, career driven, health and drugs, stress aspects, contingent influences, sexual and reproductive health communications. These are believed to shape reproductive self-efficacy which poses consequences for sustainability of current employability and respective family orientation. In nutshell, Millennia’s triggered infertility behaviour identifies as a matter of intensive research across developed and developing economies alike. In this prospect, the current proposed research seeks to explore the vivid aspects, factors and dimensions that collectively see to shape up the phenomenon across contextual roots in Delhi/NCR and North Indian states.