Birth Order, Family Constellation, and College Music Performers

Musicians comprising the top choir and orchestra at five selected schools of music, the top choir from a sixth selected school, and the top orchestra from a seventh selected school served as subjects. Forms were completed during a regularly-scheduled rehearsal on which each self-reported 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 924 parents, whose families contained 3067 offspring. For the total sample and for choirs and for orchestras chi-square and z analyses were conducted for positions as divided into first-, middle-, and last-borns. Tests were conducted examining the sex of all siblings and of closest siblings and of siblings whose births occurred within specified numbers of years of the subjects' births.

Name thesis:degree_name

D.M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Music

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Trimble, Tod M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Colwell, Richard J.

• Music
• Education, Music
• Psychology, Personality

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8908869

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70874