TY - JOUR
T1 - Ordinal position and peer popularity
AU - Miller, Norman
AU - Maruyama, Geoffrey
PY - 1976/2
Y1 - 1976/2
N2 - The interaction of siblings within the home may require later-born children--those with less power than their older siblings--to develop more effective interpersonal skills. If so, their popularity should be appreciably affected; they should be better liked. To test this line of reasoning, the relationship between ordinal position of a child and his or her popularity among peers was examined by relating school setting measures of popularity in friendship, play, and school-work situations to ordinal position for 1,750 grade-school children. For friendship and play measures, later-born children were more popular than their early-born peers. This finding held across racial/ethnic background (Afro-, Mexican-, and Anglo-American), age (kindergarten to 6th grade), and sex. In addition, teacher's ratings of children showed that later-borns did possess greater social skills than their early-born peers. Results fail to confirm previous findings relating ordinal position to (a) measures of achievement and intelligence and (b) personality dimensions such as anxiety, self-concept, and dependence. (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
AB - The interaction of siblings within the home may require later-born children--those with less power than their older siblings--to develop more effective interpersonal skills. If so, their popularity should be appreciably affected; they should be better liked. To test this line of reasoning, the relationship between ordinal position of a child and his or her popularity among peers was examined by relating school setting measures of popularity in friendship, play, and school-work situations to ordinal position for 1,750 grade-school children. For friendship and play measures, later-born children were more popular than their early-born peers. This finding held across racial/ethnic background (Afro-, Mexican-, and Anglo-American), age (kindergarten to 6th grade), and sex. In addition, teacher's ratings of children showed that later-borns did possess greater social skills than their early-born peers. Results fail to confirm previous findings relating ordinal position to (a) measures of achievement and intelligence and (b) personality dimensions such as anxiety, self-concept, and dependence. (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
KW - ordinal position of siblings, popularity in friendship &
KW - play &
KW - schoolwork situations, kindergartners to 6th graders
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.33.2.123
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.33.2.123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000249861
VL - 33
SP - 123
EP - 131
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
SN - 0022-3514
IS - 2
ER -