The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students

Aseel ALSALEH; Ahmed ABDULLA ALABBASİ; Alaa Eldin AYOUB; Amnah HAFSYAN

doi:10.17478/jegys.864399

Year 2021, Volume 9 , Issue 1, Pages 67 - 73 2021-03-15

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The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students

Aseel ALSALEH ^[1] , Ahmed ABDULLA ALABBASİ ^[2] , Alaa Eldin AYOUB ^[3] , Amnah HAFSYAN ^[4]

https://doi.org/10.17478/jegys.864399

The current study explored the influence of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking (DT), and problem finding (PF) with a sample of 156 gifted male and female Arab students (M= 12.21 years, SD= 1.75). Regarding academic achievement, it was found that first-borns possessed higher grade point averages (GPAs) than did other-born children. Family size was also related to academic achievement-participants from smaller-sized families had significantly higher GPAs compared with gifted students from middle- and large-sized families. As for the influence of birth order and family size on both DT and PF, a multivariate analysis of variance showed significant differences for birth order and the interaction between birth order and family size in the originality dimension of PF. Non-significant differences were found concerning family size. The follow-up analyses of variance showed that later-born gifted students scored higher than first-, second-, third-, and fourth-born children in PF originality. Later-born gifted students who scored higher on originality were from smaller families. No significant influences for birth order and family size were found concerning fluency for both DT and PF as well as DT originality. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

Birth order, family size, academic achievement, divergent thinking, problem finding

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Primary Language	en
Subjects	Education and Educational Research
Published Date	March 2021
Journal Section	Thinking Skills
Authors	Orcid: 0000-0003-4652-2341 Author: Aseel ALSALEH Institution: Arabian Gulf University Country: Bahrain Orcid: 0000-0002-4773-4955 Author: Ahmed ABDULLA ALABBASİ (Primary Author) Institution: Arabian Gulf University Country: Bahrain Orcid: 0000-0002-3506-4835 Author: Alaa Eldin AYOUB Institution: Arabian Gulf University Country: Bahrain Orcid: 0000-0001-9821-4872 Author: Amnah HAFSYAN Institution: Arabian Gulf University Country: Bahrain
Dates	Publication Date : March 15, 2021

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APA	Alsaleh, A , Abdulla Alabbasi, A , Ayoub, A , Hafsyan, A . (2021). The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students . Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists , 9 (1) , 67-73 . DOI: 10.17478/jegys.864399
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Chicago	Alsaleh, A , Abdulla Alabbasi, A , Ayoub, A , Hafsyan, A . "The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students". Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists 9 (2021 ): 67-73
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ISNAD	Alsaleh, Aseel , Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed , Ayoub, Alaa Eldin , Hafsyan, Amnah . "The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students". Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists 9 / 1 (March 2021): 67-73 . https://doi.org/10.17478/jegys.864399
AMA	Alsaleh A , Abdulla Alabbasi A , Ayoub A , Hafsyan A . The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students. JEGYS. 2021; 9(1): 67-73.
Vancouver	Alsaleh A , Abdulla Alabbasi A , Ayoub A , Hafsyan A . The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students. Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists. 2021; 9(1): 67-73.
IEEE	A. Alsaleh , A. Abdulla Alabbasi , A. Ayoub and A. Hafsyan , "The effects of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking, and problem finding among gifted students", Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 67-73, Mar. 2021, doi:10.17478/jegys.864399