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2021 - Volume 5 - Number 2

Me and My Parents: A Qualitative Study of the Role of Birth Order Child in Family

Diesmy Humaira Biruny *diesmyhumaira@webmail.umm.ac.id 
University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Faculty of Psychology, INDONESIA

Latipun Latipun * latipun@umm.ac.id * ORCID: 0000-0003-0348-8585
University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Faculty of Psychology, INDONESIA

Open Journal for Psychological Research, 2021, 5(2), 55-64 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojpr.0502.03055b
Received: 7 November 2021 ▪ Accepted: 26 December 2021 ▪ Published Online: 30 December 2021

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Birth order is one of the most extensive human experiences and is considered to determine how smart, good, responsible, sociable, emotionally stable, and open to new experiences. Therefore, parents assume the birth orderly child is always reliable and can open the way to help his younger siblings later which makes his role very necessary in the family. This study aims to analyze how the role of the birth orderly child in the family is to find the initial process of the birth orderly child to reach his role in the family. Using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) data analysis technique, this study involved 5 study participants with criteria for children in the first birth order. The results show that with the duties and responsibilities that were carried out early on, the recognition of roles and goals in achieving the well-being of the family made the birth orderly child able to proceed and make himself a role in the scope of the family.

KEY WORDS: birth orderly child, family, birth order, role in the family.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Diesmy Humaira Biruny, The University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Faculty of Psychology, INDONESIA. E-mail: diesmyhumaira@webmail.umm.ac.id.

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