Birth order and personality: A within-family test using independent self-reports from both firstborn and laterborn siblings

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-18

  Bleske Rechek, April ^a   Kelley, Jenna A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Birth order; Firstborns; Laterborns; Personality; Siblings; Within family designs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885485249     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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