Effect of Birth Order: Annotated Bibliography

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Annotated Bibliography

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “Bluebeard (1812).” The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: from the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang, edited by Jack Zipes, Hackett Publishing Company, 2013, pp. 636-637.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two philologists and they eventually become two well known folklorists. They have collected translated and published stories of all social classes in order to preserve the traditions. The young maiden was given a key to the forbidden room that contained the bodies of Bluebeard’s victims and caused her to get blood on the key which she could never wash off. Bluebeard saw the blood on the key and made attempt to murder the young maiden for her disobedience. The young maiden’s three older brothers heard her screams and killed Bluebeard in order to save their sister. It was interesting to see how quickly the brothers came to their sister’s aid just when she was about to be murdered by Bluebeard and this shows how close the brothers were to their sister. I will be using this story to back up my thesis that the strong, positive sibling relationships in the “Bluebeard” trope are due to the established birth order roles understood and acted upon by all the siblings which are similar to how it is perceived in the modern world. But I will explain why older siblings feel the need to protect their younger siblings.

Grimm,Jacob and Wilhelm. “ Fitcher’s Bird (1812).” The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: from the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang, edited by Jack Zipes, Hackett Publishing Company, 2013, pp. 639-640.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two philologists and they eventually become two well-known folklorists. They have collected translated and published stories of all social classes in order to preserve the traditions. The sorcerer would disguise himself as a beggar to kidnap women, so he can make them be his would-be brides. He first would take the oldest sister and take her to his home before giving her the keys to all the rooms including the forbidden room. He also gave her egg and told her do not go into the forbidden room or die. She disobeyed him by going to the forbidden room and finding the bodies of women that the sorcerer murdered. She got blood on the egg and sorcerer found out that she disobeyed him then he killed her. The second sister was kidnapped by sorcerer and she suffered the same as her older sister. The third sister was smart enough to put egg in the basket before entering the forbidden room where she found her two murdered sisters. She brought them back to life and hid them in the basket which she made the sorcerer carry the basket to her family’s home. The third sister just dress like a bird and escaped. As soon as the sorcerer and his friends arrived in the house, they were burned alive by the angry mob that the sisters have sent. It was interesting to see how far that siblings will go to bring back their dead brother or sister back to life. The story seems to portray the third sister as the brightest out of three sisters and ends up being the hero who saves her two sisters and herself. I will be using this story to discuss the importance of sibling bonds and what lengths that siblings will go to bring their dead brother or sister back to life.

Meier, Ernst. “King Bluebeard (1852).” The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales: from the Brothers Grimm to Andrew Lang, edited by Jack Zipes, Hackett Publishing Company, 2013, pp. 646-647.

[bookmark: _Hlk2253030] Ernst Meier is a German professor of oriental studies and folklorist, who also published studies of Swabian folklore. He also collected German folk tales just like the Grimm brothers. The young maiden in this story has three older brother and older sister, and her father forces her to marry Bluebeard. She was given the keys to all the rooms including the forbidden room and she used the key to unlock the door to the forbidden room. She saw the bodies of the women that bluebeard killed and she got so scared that she dropped the key in pool of blood. She had a hard time getting the blood off the key and eventually King Bluebeard came back from his long journey. He asked the young maiden for the key and he saw the blood on the key then he figured out that she went into the forbidden room. He decided that he was going to kill her, but she went to her sister for advice and her sister told her to use the whistle that their brothers have gave her. She took her sister’s advice and used the whistle to summon her brothers, so they can save her from being killed. The brothers stabbed bluebeard in the chest killing him and they were able to save their sister. It shows that the younger siblings will often turned to their older siblings for advice or help when they are in trouble or in a life and death situation. I will be using this story to back up my thesis in paper 3 and show that the younger sibling will often depend on the older sibling for advice.

Mchale, Susan M. et al. “Sibling Relationships and Influences in Childhood and Adolescence.” Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 74, no. 5, Oct. 2012, pp. 913-930, ProQuest, DOL: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01011, Accessed 20 Feb. 2019.

Dr. Susan M. McHale is a professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Professor of Demography. She is also a Social Science Research Institute Associate Director. Kimberly A Updegraff is a professor in the T Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. Shawn D. Whiteman received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in psychology and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies. Shawn D. Whiteman is a Associate Professor at the Utah University and he joined the faculty in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in 2016. The authors review the literature on sibling relationship in childhood and adulthood and they trace themes from Foundational research and theory then they focused on empirical research during the last twenty years. The Article documents siblings’ importance in family life, sources of variation in sibling relationship qualities, and the significance of sibling for child and adult growth and adjustment. According to the article, sibling influences emerge not only in context of siblings’ frequent and often emotionally intense interactions, but also by virtue of siblings’ role in larger family system dynamics. The article also explains that siblings are the building blocks of family structure and key players in family dynamics. Their work involves the sibling aspect of relationships and how it plays a role in families. It seems that their work takes a psychoanalytic approach with siblings’ relationship and influences in childhood and adulthood. This article will help me understand the siblings’ relationships and influences in more of a modern world element.

Averett, Susan L et al. ‘Older Siblings and Adolescent Risky Behavior: Does Parenting Play a Role?”. Journal of Population Economics, vol 24, no. 3, Jul. 2011, pp. 957-978 , ProQuest, DOL: 10.1007/s00148-009-0276-1, Accessed 20 Feb. 2019.

Susan is a professor of economics and she has a PhD in economics from the University of Colorado. Susan has published work like the effect of birth order on adolescent health and risky behavior. Laura M. Argys is a professor of economics and associate dean for research and creative activities at the University of Colorado Denver. She’s a Research Fellow at the CU Boulder Population Program. Daniel I. Rees is a instructor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver and the Editor-in-Chief of the Economics of Education Review. One of the methods that authors use is that they use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the connection between the birth order and risky adolescent behavior is driven by the difference in the level of parental supervision. According to the article, kids with older siblings are likely to engage with risky behavior than their old sibling counterpart. The authors believe that the connection between the birth order and risky adolescent behavior might reflect on the influence of older siblings. Another argument that the authors made is that the parents supervise the older sibling more than they do with the younger sibling. Their research offers me some insight on whether older siblings have an affect the younger sibling’s risky behavior and if the parents have a role in the younger child’s risky behavior. I will be using this article shown how the older sibling influences the younger sibling’s behavior.

Caffaro, John V., P.H.D., and Allison Conn-Caffaro. ‘Sibling Dynamics and Group Psychotherapy.’ International journal of group psychotherapy, vol 53, no. 2, Apr. 2003, pp. 135-54, ProQuest, DOL: 10.1521/ijgp.53.2.135.42818, Accessed 21 Feb. 2019.

John V. Caffaro is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist with more than 25 years of clinical experience of treating individuals, couples, and groups. Allison Conn-Caffaro is the author of Sibling Abuse Trauma which is a book about clinical intervention strategies for treating intersibling abuse trauma in children, families, and adults. One of the methods that that the authors used to write this article is based off of their clinical experience as psychologists and they use case examples to back up their agreement. Their article provides an integrative view of sibling relationships from a family systems and self-psychology orientation to group therapy. There is a lot of emphasis on developmental and cultural difference as they influence sibling dynamic and the group leader’s role. Group therapy offers numerous possibilities for patients to interact with leaders and members as they have interacted with their siblings. Their logic of their argument is that sibling issues arises in the practice of group psychotherapy. I will be using this article to understand the sibling dynamic and the influence of sibling relationship. It will help me understand me understand why there is sibling issues like sibling rivalries in the modern world.

Barroso, Margarida Martins. ‘Social Perceptions of Siblings’ Sexual Composition: Evidence from Portuguese Youth.’ Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol 42. no. 5,201, pp. 687-X, ProQuest, https://search-proquest- com.edmonds.idm.oclc.org/docview/940885866/abstract/82457503C6C1465APQ/22?accountid=1626, Accessed 21 Feb. 2019.

Margarida Martins Barroso is an invited Assistant Professor and she has a PhD in Sociology. She does research in social sciences quantitative and qualitative data analysis Work. She also does work in Social Policy Gender Studies. Her methods for writing the article involves a qualitative study which is an exploratory research and she also use interviews to help her write this article. This essay explores sibling relationship among the young Portuguese people and focuses on the importance of gender and sibling sexual composition. The three main areas are the social meanings and perceptions of sibling relationships and their effects on daily life practices, the parents differential treatment of their sons or daughters, and the gender determinants of care-giving for elderly parents. According to the article that same sex siblings seems to get long better than mixed gender siblings. I think that her approach of interviewing people with siblings is a good source of information and it provide insight on how parents treat their sons or daughter. I will be using article to compare same sex sibling relationship to mixed gendered sibling relationship to see if gender plays a role in siblings getting along with eachother.

Eisenman, Russell. ‘Creativity, risk taking, sex differences, and birth order.’ Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 2001, p. 189+. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com.edmonds.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A83038254/GLS?u=lynn16881&sid=GLS&xid=b32a703a. Accessed 22 Feb. 2019.

Russell Eisenman is associate professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and he holds a Ph.D. from in clinical psychology from University of Georgia. He also the author of Creativity, Mental Illness and Crime, Political Issues and Social Problems: A Social Psychological Perspective, and Readings in Psychology. His methods of gathering information involves doing extensive research in the area of creativity and birth order. It seems like he is using a survey which is a 30-item, true-false, paper-and-pencil test of creative attitudes. He talks about the birth order and what he says about birth order is that firstborn males tend to be more creative than later born males. He also says that later born female are more creative than the firstborn females based on the results of the test. He talks about how men are more creative than women because men tend take more risks than women. His article is a little sexist, but it provide good insight about the effect of the birth order. I will be using this article to help me understand the effects of the birth order and it will bring a more modern element to my thesis.

Souter, Kay, and Ira Raja. ‘Mothering siblings: diaspora, desire and identity in American Born Confused Desi.’ Narrative, vol. 16, no. 1, 2008, p. 16+. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com.edmonds.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A175629046/GLS?u=lynn16881&sid=GLS&xid=3f4e21cb. Accessed 28 Feb. 2019.

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