The Association between Birth Order and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Dental College Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Albarkheel, Abdullah; Masuadi, Emad; Riba, Hicham; Al-Jundi, Azzam; Sakka, Salah

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2019/39728.12905

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“…This is also supported by the studies of Tanskanen et al (2016) and Cai and Wu (2019), Finally, Albarkheel et al ( 2019) study found that males in Riyadh Dental College had showed the highest tendency to have better academic performance with a score of 55% while their female counterparts did not show the same tendency scoring 45%. In comparison to this study, the study is in agreement with Albarkheel et al (2019) as seen in table 4 with the males having a mean score of 2.45 while female students have 2.33 mean value.…”

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“…Similarly, the study is in agreement with Egunsola and Isani (2014) who revealed that, many other uncontrolled variables could be responsible for academic performance of students generally which parental variables are not exceptions to these factors responsible for academic performance among students in educational institutions of learning. Item 7 of this study obtained a mean value of 2.88 compared to 4.31 carried out by Albarkheel et al (2019) who found that middle birth order performs better than first and last birth order academically. The United States of America Statistics portal (2016).…”

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A study of the impact of birth order on academic performance as perceived by Guidance and Counselling students of Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria

Menchak¹,

Kefas²,

Garba³

et al. 2022

Integr. J. Edu. Train.

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The study examined the impact of birth order on academic performance as perceived by Guidance and Counselling students, Taraba State University Jalingo, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. From a population of 382 Guidance and Counselling students (2020/2021 academic session) in Taraba State University Jalingo, a sample of 101 students comprising of 47 male and 54 female was selected using purposive sampling technique. A reliability of 0.89 was obtained using Cronbach’s Alpha. Mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis. Two research questions were framed and two hypotheses were formulated and tested. Questionnaire was used for data collection: Impact of Birth Order on Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire [IBOSAPQ]. The study found that birth order has impact on academic performance of student. The study concludes that first, middle and last birth orders have impact on students’ academic performance while gender is a predictor of birth order on academic performance as perceived by Guidance and Counselling students. The study recommends that counsellors and teachers should pay attention to students’ birth order in order to provide for adequate counselling of parents and students as this will equip them with issues relating to birth order and measures to be taken to improve on students’ academic performance generally.

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A study of the impact of birth order on academic performance as perceived by Guidance and Counselling students of Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria

Menchak¹,

Kefas²,

Garba³

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Integr. J. Edu. Train.

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“…The findings of Bayba (2017) states that middle children have good academic performance. This is being supported by Albarkheel, et. al.…”

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Factors that Contribute to Failure Causes of Academically Low Performing Students

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2022

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Poor academic performance is identified to be a serious concern that needs to be addressed. To address what caused it, this inquiry was directed by determining the following: 1) respondents' birth order, mental ability, personality, study habits, and reasons of low academic performance; 2) significant difference in students' personality types when grouped according to birth order and mental ability, and 3) significant difference in respondents' study habits when grouped according to mental ability. There were 124 purposively chosen low-performing grade 7 students who are considered respondents of this study. This study made use of descriptive research specifically, the quantitative research method. Findings of the study stated that respondents are mostly middle and firstborn, have the below-average mental ability, extroverted, have low study habits, and mostly prefer studying alone. The topmost reason for low academic performance was “I did not study”. The respondents’ personalities also did not significantly differ regardless of birth order and mental ability. And, they did not significantly differ in study habits regardless of mental ability level. Being mostly extroverts and regardless of mental ability level, they did not study at all which highly explains poor academic performance.

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“…Female medical students tend to organize more than males medical students which is consistent with evidence from Saudi Arabia. 14 There was also a significant association between birth order and attributes related to "neuroticism"; middle born children were more inclined toward proving maturity to others. Birth order and factors concerning to "extraversion" personality trait were also significantly associated, greater number of middle born and last born medical students tend to exhibit composure in new situations.…”

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“…19 Our study indicated that there was no significant association across age group of participants and attributes related to big five personality traits and academic performance of medical students which is in line with evidence from Australia. 20 Evidence from other countries such as Saudi Arabia, United states, Norway and Jordan, 14 had also tried to investigate almost the same objective. This study was unique in a Pakistan as the study participants are undergraduate medical Although this paper helps establish the magnitude of associations of Sociodemographic characteristics of medical students with several attributes attributes big five personality traits in representative sample of medical students, it also has several limitations.…”

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Association between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Big Five Personality Traits of Undergraduate Medical Students in Pakistan: A Cross Sectional Analytical Study

Tariq,

Saeed Awan,

Hussnain

et al. 2022

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Objective: To analyze the relation between the three sociodemographic, characteristics gender birth order and class year characteristics on big five personality traits of medical students. Study Design: Cross-sectional analytical study. Place and Duration of Study: Study was conducted at Army Medical College, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Jan to Jul 2022. Methodology: The study included undergraduate medical students from first through final year belonging to an age group of 17-25 years and were willing to fill in the questionnaire through convenience sampling technique. Sample size as calculated by WHO calculator was 350 Results: Mean age of the participants was 21.14±1.20 years. Males were 73.4% and 26.6% were females. Majority were between age group “21-23 years”, n=281(74%), “middle born”, n=154(40%) and in “third year”, n=138(36) and “fourth year”,n=147(39%). There was a significant association between gender, birth order, age group and class year and attributes related to “conscientiousness(p=0.01), “neuroticism” (p=0.01); “extraversion “and openness to experience. Conclusion: Results of this study revealed that big five personality traits were strongly associated with self-reported attributes of Conscientiousness, openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, Specifically, gender was associated with attributes of conscientiousness Birth order was associated with attributes of neuroticism and extraversion agreeableness had relatively strong associations with empathic concern and the class year was significantly associated with all Big five personality trait attributes assessed in the study.

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The Association between Birth Order and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Dental College Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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A study of the impact of birth order on academic performance as perceived by Guidance and Counselling students of Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria

A study of the impact of birth order on academic performance as perceived by Guidance and Counselling students of Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria

Factors that Contribute to Failure Causes of Academically Low Performing Students

Association between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Big Five Personality Traits of Undergraduate Medical Students in Pakistan: A Cross Sectional Analytical Study

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