Birth Order and Family Size: Influences on Adolescents' Achievement and Related Parenting Behaviors

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl L. Sputa ◽  
Sharon E. Paulson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Questionnaire Measures ◽  
Parenting Characteristics

The purposes of this study were to confirm birth-order and family-size differences in achievement, to confirm birth-order and family-size differences in parenting, and to examine whether parenting style and parental involvement serve as mediators of birth-order and family-size differences in achievement. Subjects were 195 ninth-grade boys and girls and their parents from urban, suburban, and rural communities in the southeast and the midwest. Questionnaire measures of adolescents' and parents' perceptions of parenting style and parental involvement were used. Birth-order and family-size differences were found in adolescents' achievement and perceptions of parenting style and parental involvement but not in parents' perceptions of parenting. However, these parenting characteristics did not mediate the differences seen in achievement by birth order and family size. Implications of these findings are discussed.

Response to Sputa and Paulson's “Birth Order and Family Size: Influences on Adolescents' Achievement and Related Parenting Behaviors”

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1241-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Nystul
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Children's Achievement

Lack of several controls in work by Sputa and Paulson limits the interpretability of some interesting information regarding influence of birth order and family size on children's achievement and on parenting behaviors.

Ethnicity, Birth Order, and Family Environment

1999 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 758-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Marjoribanks
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Family Environment

Relationships were examined between birth order and family environment for children from different ethnic groups. Data were collected from 820 11-yr.-olds and their parents from Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian families. The findings indicated that there were modest significant relations between birth order and measures of parents' aspirations, parental involvement, and parenting style and that the linear and curvilinear nature of the associations differed among ethnic groups.

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

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.

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.

scholarly journals – Creative ability and its relationship to some demographic and academic variables– Field study among students of the University of Khartoum

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhakiah Ahmed Amer
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Academic Variables ◽  
Correlation Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Correlative Relationship

The objective of the current study was to detect the relationship between the qualitative differences between the creativity and the age of the student and the age of the parents at birth، family size، birth order، economic and cultural level، loss of parents and their habitat (environment) using the descriptive approach. A total of 953 students، from the first level (males and females) and from the scientific and literary colleges in Khartoum University، Sudan. The results showed no significant differences in creativity، no correlative between the age of the parents and the students' ages in creativity، but there are: - a negative correlative relationship with maternal age at level (0. 01) and a positive correlative relationship with the age of the students at the level (0. 01)، but in both flexibility and fluency، there is a negative correlation relationship statistically significant with the age of students at the level of (0. 01). There is no correlation between the creativity and birth order of the student، creativity and family size، negative correlative relation with family size at (0. 01). The differences in creativity could be attributed to the place of residence at a significant level (0. 01).  

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