title: Sibship size, birth order, and personality.
abstract: In a sample of 273 American college students who were administered seven personality tests, only death obsession scores were consistently associated with sibship size and birth order (not optimism, pessimism, anxiety, a Taoist orientation, suicidal ideation, or obsessive-compulsive tendencies).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 68168 Kaifan, Code No. 71962, Kuwait.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdel-Khalek
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001721:Birth Intervals; D001722:Birth Order; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009770:Obsessive Behavior; D010551:Personality; D035781:Siblings