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The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates

There are many debates on how birth order (only born, first born, second born, middle born, and last born) can have an effect on personality. Equally important, McGlade (2008) suggested that there is a moderate relationship between personality and romantic relationship satisfaction.Thus, to put in o...

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Main Authors: Tay, Kok Wai, Mah, Siew Huei, Pon, Poh Yee, Margaret, S. Annie
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Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling my.uum.repo.132402016-05-26T01:33:39Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13240/ The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates Tay, Kok Wai Mah, Siew Huei Pon, Poh Yee Margaret, S. Annie BF Psychology There are many debates on how birth order (only born, first born, second born, middle born, and last born) can have an effect on personality. Equally important, McGlade (2008) suggested that there is a moderate relationship between personality and romantic relationship satisfaction.Thus, to put in other words, birth order might lay either a direct or indirect effect on romantic relationship satisfaction. Nevertheless, romantic relationship satisfaction cannot be predicted efficiently based on the birth order of a particular partner,for a romantic relationship is undeniably a mutual relationship that involves two parties.Therefore, birth order combination of a couple should be given emphasis (Leman, 2009).Hence, the current study attempts to study the relationship between birth order, personality, and romantic relationship satisfaction.A sample of 100 participants from UTAR was recruited to conduct this study.The present study found that there was no significant difference in personality among participants of different birth order.Likewise, no significant difference in romantic relationship satisfaction was found among participants with various birth order combinations.However, there were significant weak to moderate correlations between certain Big Five personality traits and romantic relationship satisfaction. 2014-08-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/13240/1/49.pdf Tay, Kok Wai and Mah, Siew Huei and Pon, Poh Yee and Margaret, S. Annie (2014) The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates. In: International Social Development Conference 2014 (ISDC 2014), 12 – 13 August 2014, Bayview Hotel Langkawi, Malaysia. http://www.insanmaya.net/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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Tay, Kok Wai
Mah, Siew Huei
Pon, Poh Yee
Margaret, S. Annie
The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates
description There are many debates on how birth order (only born, first born, second born, middle born, and last born) can have an effect on personality. Equally important, McGlade (2008) suggested that there is a moderate relationship between personality and romantic relationship satisfaction.Thus, to put in other words, birth order might lay either a direct or indirect effect on romantic relationship satisfaction. Nevertheless, romantic relationship satisfaction cannot be predicted efficiently based on the birth order of a particular partner,for a romantic relationship is undeniably a mutual relationship that involves two parties.Therefore, birth order combination of a couple should be given emphasis (Leman, 2009).Hence, the current study attempts to study the relationship between birth order, personality, and romantic relationship satisfaction.A sample of 100 participants from UTAR was recruited to conduct this study.The present study found that there was no significant difference in personality among participants of different birth order.Likewise, no significant difference in romantic relationship satisfaction was found among participants with various birth order combinations.However, there were significant weak to moderate correlations between certain Big Five personality traits and romantic relationship satisfaction.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Tay, Kok Wai
Mah, Siew Huei
Pon, Poh Yee
Margaret, S. Annie
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Mah, Siew Huei
Pon, Poh Yee
Margaret, S. Annie
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title The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates
title_short The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates
title_full The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates
title_fullStr The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among UTAR undergraduates
title_sort relationship between birth order, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction among utar undergraduates
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