• A. A. Salsabeel Bano
• Farzana Alim

A lot of research work has been carried out about the role of birth order on the personality development, but the research findings are inconclusive. Moreover, in the Indian context, there has been limited research on assessing and evaluating the relationship of first-born children with their personality development. This paper examines the relationship of first-borns in terms of personality development in the context of the pioneering research carried out by Alfred Adler. For this purpose a sample of 132 children was selected comprising of young adolescents i.e., between 12-15 years of age from the schools of the Civil Lines area of Aligarh city. Data from the sample was collected by using a self-structured questionnaire containing questions regarding general background and ordinal position and a standardized questionnaire viz., Dimensional Personality Inventory (DPI) by Bhargava (2012). A bivariate relationship between positive and negative personality traits among first-borns was tested for statistical significance using paired samples t-test. From the results, a clear relationship was revealed between the first-borns and positive personality traits. Also, it was observed that the positive personality traits among first-born adolescents were not gender specific. The results from this study are novel, which provide a new insight for the Indian context, which can be extended by also including other groups such as sibship size, number of family members, and type of family.

personality development, adolescence, first-born adolescents

"Relationship between first-born adolescents and positive personality traits", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.589-592, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907839.pdf

"Relationship between first-born adolescents and positive personality traits", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp589-592, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907839.pdf