Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis
of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative
surveys covering nine countries (United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia,
Mexico, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits of risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control,
and the Big Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling and no associations
with the gender of the next older sibling. Given the high statistical power and consistent results in the overall sample
and relevant subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:89002 |
| Date | 15 January 2024 |
| Creators | Dudek, Thomas, Brenoe, Anne Ardila, Feld, Jan, Rohrer, Julia M. |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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