Several bodies of research link birth order and aggression. With a sample of 144 women and 225 men business students, the present study investigated birth order and aggression using two measures from academic marketing. Neither measure detected significant influence of birth order. Implications are discussed regarding marketing and consumers' behavior.

BACKGROUND Birth order is associated with outcomes such as birth weight and adult socioeconomic position (SEP), but little is known about the association with adult height. This potential birth order-height association is important because height predicts health, and because the association may help explain population-level height trends. We studied the birth order-height association and whethe...

The effect of Birth Order on Personality has remained a debated research topic with studies favouring and not favouring the possible impacts. While there has been substantial research separately on Birth Order and Psychological Well-Being (PWB) scarcely can we find studies relating Birth Orders with various sub-scales of PWB.The present study was thus conducted amongst students of Mysore (n=273...

It is now well recognized that the weight ofchildren during the first few years of life is closely related to their weight at birth. This point has been made by Illingworth in a number of publications (Illingworth, 1939 and 1950; Illingworth, Harvey, and Gin, 1949; Illingworth, Harvey and Jowett, 1950), and has been confirmed recently by Parfit (1951) and by Norval, Kennedy, and Berkson (1951)....

This prospective study was carried in Mahila Chikitsalya and State Zenana Hospital attached to S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur, between October 1992 to March 1993. Live born male babies delivered during this period were examined for the presence of epstein pearls on the prepuce. Prepucial epstein pearl was cleaned with cotton swab to remove any smegma, which might mimic epstein pearl. Then its s...

Previous studies have reported strong associations between birth order, maternal age, and suicide, but these results might have been confounded by socioeconomic and other factors. To control for such factors, we compared suicide risk between siblings and studied how maternal age at child birth and birth order influenced risk in a cohort study of 1,690,306 Norwegians born in 1967-1996 who were f...

This paper uses a using a nationally representative dataset to show that gender, birth order and sibling characteristics have significant effects on the schooling attainment of Egyptian children. Our analysis finds that relative to a male child, female and rural children are not only less likely to have the right schooling for age, but birth order and sibling characteristics also affect these t...

The present study examines the sex-specific patterns of mortality by birth order in four stages of the life-course, using Poisson and logistic regression analysis. The main question posed is whether there is any continuing social effect of birth order when (a) biological factors at birth, (b) other social factors at birth and (c) socio-economic circumstances in adulthood are adjusted for. The a...

BACKGROUND Birth order has been suggested to be linked to several cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, but the evidence is still inconsistent. We aim to determine the associations of birth order with body mass index (BMI), muscle strength and blood pressure. Further we will analyse whether these relationships are affected by family characteristics. METHODS BMI, elbow flexion, hand grip ...