Personality and life satisfaction in China: The birth order effect under the influence of national policy |
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| Authors: | Yi Shao Xiang Yao Yixuan Li Zheng Huang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Oklahoma City University, OK 73106, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;3. Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China |
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| Abstract: | Individuals’ development is a multilayered affair. The influence of family relationship on personality, such as and focusing on birth order, is subject to influence from other social systems in which the families are situated. The current research examined the relation of birth order to personality and life satisfaction in China, where only children have become the majority because of national policy. Across two studies with both between-family data (N = 1468) and within-family data (N = 171), onlyborns and laterborns surpassed firstborns on openness to experience. In addition, only-child participants were more satisfied with their own lives than were sibling participants, especially laterborns. The results offer new insights into the dynamic relations between ecology and personality. |
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| Keywords: | Birth order Personality Life satisfaction Ecological perspective Only-child China |
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