Birth Order and Political Orientation in College Women

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1045-1046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank H. Farley ◽  
Sonja V. Farley
Keyword(s):  
College Women ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Only Children

An hypothesis that conservatism is significantly related to birth order was tested using female undergraduates in education and global self-ratings of conservatism-liberalism. Only children, firstborn, and laterborn groups ( ns = 15, 58, and 66) having no significant age differences, and no significant family size differences between the latter two, were compared. Conservatism did not significantly discriminate these groups; no support for the conservatism-birth order hypothesis was found.

Family Size and Ordinal Position: Correlates of Academic Success

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Poole ◽  
Annette Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Essential Ingredient ◽  
Educational Achievements ◽  
University Degree

The National Survey of 1960 Graduates, which included every woman and every other man who graduated from British universities in 1960, provided a unique opportunity to further our knowledge of the correlates of academic success measured in terms of the gaining of a university degree. A relatively large family appeared to be no impediment to the educational achievements of middle-class children, but for those with less privileged home circumstances a small family was an essential ingredient for success. First-born children were over-represented among this sample, though only children were not particularly favoured. In general, the likelihood of graduation appeared to decrease with each later position in the birth order.

Note on Creativity and Scholastic Achievement of Women as a Function of Birth Order and Family Size

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank H. Farley
Keyword(s):  
College Women ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Significant Trend ◽  
Scholastic Achievement ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Sibling Family

From prior work it was predicted that greater creativity would be found for later than for firstborns, and the opposite would hold for scholastic achievement. On a sample of college women, with control over family size and in completed families, the predictions of creativity were supported significantly for the two-sibling family, but for the three-sibling family a non-significant trend suggested creativity might increase from first to second-borns but decrease from second- to third-borns. For scholastic achievement the results for the two-and three-sibling families were in accord with prediction but were not significant.

Birth Order, Sex, and Socio-Political Orientation in College Students

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Heingartner ◽  
Celeste Keusch Wetherell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Order Position ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between socio-political orientation and birth-order position and sex were examined for 62 college students. A modified version of the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale and abridged versions of the California F Scale and the Political and Economic Conservatism Scale measured socio-political orientation. While significant main effects for birth order and sex were not obtained on any of the scales, significant interactions of sex by birth order occurred on all three. On each scale females who were firstborn or only children scored significantly more conservatively than correspondingly born males. For subjects who were later born there was no sex difference on two of the scales, while on the Political and Economic Conservatism Scale males scored significantly more conservatively than females. The results are discussed in terms of the differential socialization experiences of firstborn and later born children and the different role expectations for males and females.

Resolving the debate over birth order, family size, and intelligence.

2000 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 599-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Lee Rodgers ◽  
H. Harrington Cleveland ◽  
Edwin van den Oord ◽  
David C. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size

Siblings and Illness

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Sawyer Vanderwerp
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Using Data

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Mother and Child samples, I investigated the relationships among child and adolescent depressive symptoms, having a chronically ill sibling, and other child and familial demographic variables. From research on social support and social role transitions, with the Stress Process as a theoretical model, I hypothesized that children with chronically ill siblings experience more depressive symptoms. Specifically, I looked at age, gender, birth order and family size as potentially reducing the effect size of having a chronically ill sibling. Findings showed that having a chronically ill sibling is associated with demonstrating more depressive symptoms both in the bivariate and multivariate analyses. Although age, gender, birth order and family size do not interact significantly with having a chronically ill sibling in predicting depressive symptoms, they do present interesting findings about childhood depressive symptoms in general. Thus, the results of this study suggest specific and meaningful paths for future research.

Intelligence, family size and birth order: Some data from Kuwait

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1032-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek ◽  
Richard Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size

Relation of Birth Order and Scores on Measures of Pathological Narcissism

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Curtis ◽  
Donald R. Cowell
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Pathological Narcissism ◽  
Standardized Measures ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Initial Prediction

To study the relationship between birth order and pathological narcissism, it was predicted that firstborn and only children would score significantly higher on standardized measures of pathological narcissism. Two such measures, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, were administered to 50 randomly selected subjects from a metropolitan mental health and family treatment agency. Subjects were asked to indicate their ordinal birth positions, e.g., first, middle, last, or only, and then were administered both instruments. Analysis supported the initial prediction by indicating that firstborn and only children had higher mean scores on the measures of pathological narcissism. It might be advisable for clinicians to identify patients' ordinal positions while appraising relevant diagnostic criteria and eventual treatment planning.

Narcotics Addicts: Effect of Family and Parental Risk Factors on Timing of Emancipation, Drug Use Onset, Pre-Addiction Incarcerations and Educational Achievement

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. McCarthy ◽  
M. Douglas Anglin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Parental History ◽  
Parental Absence ◽  
History Of

The family background characteristics of 756 male heroin users were examined to determine the effects of selected family risk factors on the timing of onset of emancipation and drug use, on pre-addiction incarcerations and on educational attainment. These risk factors included family size, birth order, socioeconomic status, family drug use, parental history of alcoholism, parental absence, and family history of incarceration. The two measures of age of emancipation were age on leaving school and age on leaving home. Age of onset of regular use was measured for the following drugs: tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and heroin. Incarceration measures included the occurrence of juvenile detention and the time spent in prison prior to first addiction. Educational attainment was a score on a California State achievement test. Larger family size, higher birth order, parental alcoholism and parental absence were found to have a cumulatively negative effect on how young the respondents were when they first left home and when they first used particular drugs regularly, on their level of tested academic achievement, and on their probability of juvenile detention. Implications for social policies designed to prevent drug abuse are discussed.

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