Open AccessBirth Order and Personality
Author(s) -
Tamanna Gupta
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0501.014
Subject(s) - agreeableness , conscientiousness , openness to experience , personality , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , neuroticism , birth order , psychology , big five personality traits and culture , graduation (instrument) , hierarchical structure of the big five , trait , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , demography , social psychology , population , mathematics , sociology , geometry , computer science , programming language
The present study is exploring the personality trait of different birth orders. Sample of the study consisted 60 college students of different birth order (20 first born, middle born, last born).there age ranged between 17- 26 years. Their education was at least graduation and above. Selected subjects were tested by questionnaire method their psychological dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness to assess personality traits NEO-FFI questionnaire was used. Collected data was analyzed by using ANOVA. Finding reveals that there was significant difference between different birth orders on personality traits.