Gimimo eiliškumas ir asmenybės raida

Abstract

The effect of birth order on some individual peculiarities as self-worth, social status in group and relationships with parents was examined in a sample of 246 secondary school students at age 17-18 and 114 university students at age 19-21. Methods used where the Relationship Closeness Inventory RCI (Berscheid, Snyder, & Omoto, 1989), M. Rosenberg's self-esteem scale and J. Moreno sociometric method. The result showed some linkages between self-worth, relationship closeness with parents and child ordinal position in the family after birth. The firstborns feel themselves as more independent from parents then the secondborns and the lastborns. The lastborns have the highest self-evaluation. The results show statistically meaningful differences between the lastborns and other two groups: the only child group and the secondborns. There were fond no associations between birth order and group social status.