No evidence that middleborns feel less close to family and closer to friends than other birth orders

Middleborns have been argued to be the neglected birth order. The present study aimed to test whether the emotional closeness to parents, siblings or friends differed between middleborns and otherborns, across two different datasets. Using a between family design this study accounted for gender, nat...

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Main Authors: Veronika Simanko, Ben Rimmer, Thomas V. Pollet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020306708