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Pfouts, Jane H. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1980
Very close age spacing was an obstacle to high academic performance for later borns. In family relations and self-esteem, first borns scored better and performed in school as well as their potentially much more able younger siblings, regardless of age spacing. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Birth Order, Family Influence
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Svanum, Soren; Bringle, Robert G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
The confluence model of cognitive development was tested on 7,060 children. Family size, sibling order within family sizes, and hypothesized age-dependent effects were tested. Findings indicated an inverse relationship between family size and the cognitive measures; age-dependent effects and other confluence variables were found to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Birth Order, Cognitive Development
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1978
This study focuses on the effects of family size and spacing on intellectual, social, and personality development of children. The sample consisted of 533 suburban, middle class, large family (five or more) and small two child family children. The children, 233 boys and 300 girls, were teenagers attending either junior or senior high school.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Birth Order