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Birth Order Position and the Occurrence of Perceived Parental Favoritism

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by Susan Burns and Michelle Peter - Emporia State University

Categories: Developmental | Social


Eighty-six college students completed a questionnaire concerning the occurrence of perceived parental favoritism and their birth order position. The participants also rated their feeling about parents’ warmth and acceptance. Conflicting results notwithstanding, it was hypothesized that birth order position was related to perceived parental favoritism. This prediction was partially supported. However, a significant difference was found between warmth of mothers and fathers; mothers were rated as displaying more warmth than fathers.

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