Lack of Association of Extraversion and Neuroticism with Sibship Size and Birth Order among Arab College Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Sibship Size

In a sample of 450 (220 men, 230 women) Egyptian undergraduates ( M age = 20.6 yr., SD=1.9), scores on Extraversion and Neuroticism scales were not associated with sibship size and birth order.

Sibship Size, Birth Order, and Personaltiy among Kuwaiti College Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek ◽  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Orientation Scale

In a sample of 460 (103 men, 357 women) Kuwaiti college students ( M age = 21.9 yr., SD=3.0), scores on the Arabic Scale of Optimism and Pessimism, the Death Obsession Scale, the Arabic Scale of Obsession-Compulsion, the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale, the Taoist Orientation Scale, and the Suicidal Ideation Scale were not associated with sibship size and birth order.

Sibship Size, Birth Order, and Personality

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdel-Khalek ◽  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Personality Tests

In a sample of 273 American college students who were administered seven personality tests, only death obsession scores were consistently associated with sibship size and birth order (not optimism, pessimism, anxiety, a Taoist orientation, suicidal ideation, or obsessive-compulsive tendencies).

SIBSHIP SIZE, BIRTH ORDER, AND PERSONALTIY AMONG KUWAITI COLLEGE STUDENTS

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
AHMED M. ABDEL-KHALEK
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Sibship Size

scholarly journals No evidence that middleborns feel less close to family and closer to friends than other birth orders.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Simanko ◽  
Ben Rimmer ◽  
Thomas Victor Pollet
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Emotional Closeness

Middleborns have been argued to be the neglected birth order. The present study aimed to test whether the emotional closeness to parents, siblings or friends differed between middleborns and otherborns, across two different datasets. Using a between family design this study accounted for gender, nationality, educational attainment, age and sibship size via matching. We found no evidence to suggest that middleborns differ from otherborns in familial sentiment. The sign of closeness to friends was in the opposite direction than predicted, with middleborns being less close than other birth orders. The findings are discussed with reference to current literature on birth order and familial sentiment.

Effects of Sex, Birth Order, Target's Relationship and Target's Sex on Self-Disclosure by College Students

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1167-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. Lord ◽  
Wayne F. Velicer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Self Disclosure

Jourard's Self-disclosure Questionnaire (Jourard & Lasakow, 1958) was administered to 145 college students. Females were significantly more self-disclosing than males and both sexes disclosed more to friends than to siblings, with preference for disclosure to siblings of the same sex but no discrimination by sex in disclosure to friends.

Birth Order and Family Size: Bias Caused by Changes in Birth Rate

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (523) ◽  
pp. 647-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Hare ◽  
J. S. Price
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Reproductive Period ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Rank Distribution ◽  
Sibship Size ◽  
Birth Rank ◽  
Age Range

In a previous paper (Price and Hare, 1969) we drew attention to some types of bias which may complicate the search for a useful association between disease and birth order. In particular, we considered biases occurring in a sample of adult patients where the patients' mothers have all passed their reproductive period and where, therefore, the sibships of the patients are complete. In such a sample, the recognized methods of searching for an association between disease and birth order are based on the assumption, that, for a null hypothesis, the sample will be randomly distributed among the birth ranks for each sibship size. But in fact the distribution may be non-random, and there are two main causes for this. These are (i) changes in the birth rate of the population, and (ii) changes in the birth rank distribution of the patients between birth and the age-range from which the sample is selected (e.g. differential rates of mortality or migration). The principal aim in the present paper is to illustrate the bias arising from the first of these causes.

Birth Order, Sibship Size, and Risk for Germ-Cell Testicular Cancer

Epidemiology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Richiardi ◽  
Olof Akre ◽  
Mats Lambe ◽  
Fredrik Granath ◽  
Scott M. Montgomery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Testicular Cancer ◽  
Germ Cell ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Sibship Size
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