Do Psychological Well-Being characteristics vary with Birth Order?

Abstract

Abstract: The effect of Birth Order on Personality has remained a debated research topic with studies favouring and not favouring the possible impacts. While there has been substantial research separately on Birth Order and Psychological Well-Being (PWB) scarcely can we find studies relating Birth Orders with various sub-scales of PWB.The present study was thus conducted amongst students of Mysore (n=273) to investigate the whether the Birth Order characteristics vary with the sub-scales of Ryff’s PWB scale. Significant differences were found among all Birth Orders. Research implications and significance of the study conclude the article.