Birth Order Personality

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INTRODUCTION
This research is conducted in order to investigate the influence of birth order on personality of individuals based on the Big Five Inventory (BFI) which is also known as The Big Five. In the field of psychology, The Big Five, which is a collective taxonomy of personality traits, consist of a coordinate system that measure the traits of an individual’s personality in terms of self-accounts and ratings of another individual. The design of this self-report scale that consist of 44 items was so to measure five specific personality traits; extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness.
Extraversion measures the level of assertiveness, sociability and the enthusiasm of an individual. Those who score high in this particular trait are known to be extroverts whereas low scores indicate introversion.
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Farley investigated the purposes of birth order in families that consist of only two siblings by studying the higher order of personality dimensions of extraversion-introversion and neuroticism. The research was done in the year 1973 and the participants involved in the research were one hundred and forty-one female undergraduates from University of Wisconsin. The subjects were chosen with entire control over genders of sibling and the age separation between the siblings. The participants were categorized into five groups; the only child, the firstborn with a male or a female sibling and the second born with a male or a female sibling. Each and every participant was supervised using the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Form A in which scores were calculated in the means of extraversion-introversion, neuroticism as well as a validity score. High scores indicated extraversion and high neuroticism. It was proven that the both dimensions of extraversion-introversion and neuroticism among the females were insignificant as a function of the familial structure and unrelated to the ordinal