Does Birth Order Affect Personality Type?

Overview

Objectives/Goals In my experiment I was trying to figure out if there was a correlation between birth order and personality type. I hypothesized that there was going to be a certain pattern between birth order and personality type because of my own family experiences when dealing with siblings. Methods/Materials I tested this problem by collecting 34 students of each birth order, youngest, oldest, and middle children, and had them take a 40 question test to find their personality type. I then recorded my data and compared them to other students of the same birth order. Results After conducting my experiment I realized that my hypothesis was correct. There was indeed a correlation between birth order and personality type. Conclusions/Discussion I concluded this because within each birth order there was a most common personality type. For example in oldest children the most common personality type was ENFJ with a total of 7 students with this personality type. This means that the seven students had the most common traits of: Extroverted, iNtutive, Feeling, and Judging.

Competition history

• CSEF 2007 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry J0318

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