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The Effect of Twins on Family Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Audrey C. Sandbank
Audrey C. Sandbank*
Affiliation:
Buryfields Child Guidance Clinic, Guildford, Surrey, and TAMBA Medical and Education Group, UK
*
30 Beech Road, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9NA, UK

Abstract

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The results of the Bene Anthony Family Relations Test on 53 pairs of twins and 30 older siblings, as well as an analysis of personality inventories from their parents, are presented. It is shown that weight and birth order can affect not only personality and the way in which twins interact with each other, but can also affect family interaction. Particular attention has been given to the effect on and of the preceding sibling.

Keywords

TwinsWeightBirth orderPersonalityFamily interaction
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 161 - 171
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1988

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