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Hypochondria in women as a function of birth order
1King's College, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Psychological Reports
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
The hypothesis that firstborn women would score higher than later-born women on a measure of hypochondria was supported. This result is explained in terms of parental treatment, specifically, the modeling of greater concern about the health of their girls by inexperienced parents.