Birth Order, Family Configuration, and Verbal Achievement.

Autor/in	Breland, Hunter M.
Titel	Birth Order, Family Configuration, and Verbal Achievement.
Quelle	(1973), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Birth Order; Family Influence; Individual Characteristics; Longitudinal Studies; Parent Background; Sex Differences; Siblings; Socioeconomic Influences; Twins; Verbal Ability; Verbal Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geburtenfolge; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Elternhaus; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Sibling; Geschwister; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Twin; Zwilling; Mündliche Leistung
Abstract	An examination of mean scores for two samples of 884 and 1570 high school students who were administered the National Merit Scholarship Qualification Test (NMSQT) in 1962 and for the entire population of 794,589 students given the same test in 1965 revealed consistent effects of birth order on mean score. Earlyborn, and firstborn in particular, scored higher within constant family sizes. Covariance of mother education, father education, family income, and mother age failed to alter the relationship. A step-down analysis of the five NMSQT tests (English Usage, Math Usage, Social Studies Reading, Natural Sciences Reading, and Word Usage) suggested that a verbal component represents the primary source of the birth order effect. Sibling spacing and sex were also considered. Closely following siblings, whether male or female, tended to score lower. The number of like-sexed siblings in a family, however, appeared not to affect any of the test scores appreciably. Comparison of the results of this study with the results of studies of twins and studies of family size effects leads to the possibility that the causes of higher scores for earlyborn and well-spaced siblings but lower scores for laterborn, twins, and closely-spaced siblings may all relate to the degree of isolation from other siblings during the early months of life. (Author/NE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01