A note on personality and family position

Abstract

The percentile scores on the Bernreuter personality inventory of 76 women students at Mount Holyoke College were compared with their family position. The numbers in each family position were too few to yield reliable differences. However, the consistency of the results and the agreement with earlier similar findings of Stagner and Katzoff are significant. The more older siblings a subject had, the more likely she was to be neurotic and the less likely to be self-sufficient and dominant. Also, having older siblings was associated with being more introverted, less self-confident, and more sociable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)