A study of birth order and family size differences on depression

Pages: 114-117
Sudha Banth (Department of Psychology, Panjab University Chandigarh, India)
Anubhuti Sharma (Department of Psychology, Panjab University Chandigarh, India)

The present endeavor was aimed to assess the differences among different birth orders (only child, first born, second born, and third born) and family sizes (one child family, two child family, and three child family). For this purpose, 480 young adults were randomly selected from the Tricity of Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali. Zung’s depression inventory (1975) was administered on the sample. 4×3 factorial analyzes of variance design was applied to assess the differences among the young adults. Further, Scheffe’s post-hoc test was also applied. Results showed a significant difference among different birth orders and family sizes on depression.