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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Birth order"”.
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Does birth order affect intelligence?
… investigation was to determine whether birth order has an effect on intelligence. Seventy-four undergraduate students from Rowan University participated in my study. During class-time, I handed out a questionnaire with questions pertaining to the student's birth order within their family …
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Anxiety and birth order: does birth order play a role in a child's anxiety level?
… is an interaction between anxiety levels and birth order. It was hypothesized that the first-born child would have a higher level of total anxiety than a non-first born child. It was also hypothesized that females would have an overall higher level of anxiety than males. The Revised Children's …
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Birth Order and Reasons for Living.
… was to examine possible relationships between birth order and reasons for living. Additionally, gender differences were examined with respect to the relationship between these characteristics and reasons for living. It was hypothesized that women would score higher than men, non-ideators would …
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Birth Order and Its Relationship to Dogmatism
… to see if this dimension is reflected in ordinal birth position, specifically first- and later-born. The literature reviewed in this study appears to describe the first-born very much like Rokeach (1960) describes his closed-minded person. Further, the description of the later-born is very much in …
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The Effect of Birth Order on Infant Injury
… of pediatric injury, and some suggest that birth order may be an important risk factor for pediatric injury. This study further examined the relationship of birth order with pediatric injury, specifically studying the association of birth order with emergency department-attended infant …
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Birth Order, Family Constellation, and College Music Performers
… his or her own family constellations (birth order, spacing, and sex of siblings) and his or her parents' family constellations where known. 492 subjects provided data on 1011 siblings, for 1503 offspring in the subjects' immediate families. The subjects provided data for the families of …
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Birth order and its effect on depression in adults
… this study was to find the relationship between birth order and depression. It hypothesized that first-borns are more susceptible to depression than laterborns. Subjects were male and female undergraduate students from Rowan University. These students were over the age of 18 and were kept …
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The Relationship Between Birth Order and Standardized Reading Test Scores
… than siblings occupying other positions in the birth order. Eleventh grade students at a public high school in a southwestern county in Georgia were surveyed as to whether they were the only child, the eldest child, or occupied another position in the familial birth order. From these surveys, …
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Predicting Self-Esteem Based on Perceived Parental Favoritism and Birth Order.
… self-esteem and if the effects are based on birth order. Participants were 325 undergraduate college students enrolled in introductory level classes. The mean age of the participants was 21.4 with 60% being women and 40% being men. Participants completed a parental favoritism questionnaire …
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The relationships between birth order, fashion opinion leadership and clothing conformity
… to determine if relationships existed between birth order, fashion opinion leadership and clothing conformity. The sample consisted of 60 first borns and 60 subjects from other ordinal positions. The instrument used in this research consisted of three parts: Schrank's (1970) Fashion Opinion …
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The effects of psychological birth order on Goldberg's "big 5" personality traits
… of this study was to explore whether or not birth order had any influence on personality traits. Based on the theories of Alfred Adler, that position in the family effects our perceptions and roles within the family, we surveyed seventy-two undergraduate students at Rowan University using two …
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Psychological Birth Order and Career Adaptability in an At-Risk College Population
… of this study was to explore the psychological birth order and career adaptability of college students who were at-risk academically. Psychological birth order is a main construct from the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler (1927, 1946). Adler posited that individuals discover life …
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IMPACT OF BIRTH ORDER ON AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER CHILDREN’S TYPICALLY-DEVELOPING SIBLINGS
… outcomes. The present study examined the role of birth order on ASD children’s typically-developing siblings’ outcome. It was predicted that typically-developing siblings born <strong>prior</strong> to their ASD sibling would have fewer behavioral difficulties and would do better academically …
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