Birth Order - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A longitudinal study of family obligation and depressive symptoms among Chinese American adolescents.

30 May 2009 The purpose of this 2-year, 3-wave longitudinal study of Chinese American adolescents was to examine how family obligation behaviors and attitudes change over time; how gender, nativity, and birth order predict these trajectories; and whether family ... Read more...

Direct and indirect effects of birth order on personality and identity: support for the null hypothesis.

30 May 2009 The authors proposed that birth order affects psychosocial outcomes through differential investment from parent to child and differences in the degree of identification from child to parent. The authors conducted this study to test these 2 models. ... Read more...

Intrauterine position influences anatomy and behavior in domestic rabbits.

29 May 2009 In several rodent species, the sexual differentiation of a female offspring is known to be affected in utero by the testosterone produced in adjacent male littermates. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of male neighbors on the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Birth Order - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A longitudinal study of family obligation and depressive symptoms among Chinese American adolescents. 30 May 2009
• Direct and indirect effects of birth order on personality and identity: support for the null hypothesis. 30 May 2009
• Intrauterine position influences anatomy and behavior in domestic rabbits. 29 May 2009
• The development of gendered interests and personality qualities from middle childhood through adolescence: a biosocial analysis. 27 Feb 2009
• Affect expression in mother-infant interaction and subsequent attachment development. 16 Feb 2009
• Early motherhood and mental health in midlife: a study of British and American cohorts. 30 Aug 2008
• Events after stillbirth in relation to maternal depressive symptoms: a brief report. 30 May 2008
• Performance of older versus younger brothers: data from major league baseball. 29 Nov 2007
• Interaction of birth order, handedness, and sexual orientation in the Kinsey interview data. 29 Sep 2007
• Big brothers and little sisters? Sex selection and birth order. 30 Aug 2007
• Extreme right-handedness, older brothers, and sexual orientation in men. 30 Dec 2006
• The biology of human psychosexual differentiation. 23 Jul 2006
• O brother, where art thou? The fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation. 28 Jun 2006
• Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men's sexual orientation. 26 Jun 2006
• A boy or a girl? A Hungarian survey regarding gender selection. 30 Dec 2005
• Reciprocal links among differential parenting, perceived partiality, and self-worth: a three-wave longitudinal study. 29 Nov 2005
• The transition to siblinghood: a developmental ecological systems perspective and directions for future research. 29 Nov 2005
• Sibling relationships in early/middle childhood: links with individual adjustment. 29 Nov 2005
• Adolescent sibling relationships in Mexican American families: exploring the role of familism. 29 Nov 2005
• Sibling relationship quality from birth to adolescence: the enduring contributions of friends. 29 Nov 2005

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Technical information about 'Birth Order'

Definition: The sequence in which children are born into the family.

Descriptor UI: D001722

Alternative terms: Birth Order; Birth Orders; First Birth; Birth, First; Births, First; First Births;

Allowable Qualifiers: psychology;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.132; I01.240.361.160; N01.224.361.160; N06.850.505.400.400.160;

Technical Notes: IM