Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis
| Autor: | Selcuk Acar, Mark A. Runco, Harun Tadik, Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Creativity 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Birth order Meta-analysis Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology Association (psychology) Divergent thinking media_common |
| DOI: | 10.31219/osf.io/dh87j |
| Popis: | This meta-analysis examined the association of birth order on divergent thinking (DT). The main purpose was to reveal how ordinal position (only, first, middle, or last-born) relates to creativity. The results of 27 studies (k = 222) were analyzed using a multilevel approach. Since some previous studies compared first- vs. later-born children whereas others compared different ordinal positions in DT, three datasets were analyzed: (a) first-born vs. later-born children, (b) only children vs. children with siblings, and (c) middle-born vs. later-born children. Results showed that first-borns had higher DT scores than later-born children (g = -0.165, 95% CI [-0.012, -0.318], p = .046). Moderator analysis showed a significant interaction between gender and task modality with later-born males scoring lower on figural DT than first-born males. No significant difference was found between only children and first-born children with siblings. Moreover, the results showed a non-significant difference between middle- and later-born children; however, moderator analysis indicated that gender and age significantly explained some variability in the mean effect. Limitations and practical implications of the findings are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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