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Delaying Childbirth Related to Personality, Not Education
We already know this: the higher a woman’s education, the more likely she is to delay becoming a mother. But a new study of nearly 16,000 women shows personality type might have more to do with it.
The Institute of Social and Economic Research compared five personality traits of thousands of women with the age that woman had her first child. Three of those traits appeared more often in women who had babies earlier and two of those traits were associated with the older first-time moms.
Women with higher levels of extroversion, agreeableness or neuroticism had babies earlier on average than women whose personalities could be described as conscientious or open.
Education level still accounted for the two-year average age gap between first-time mothers without and education and ones who had higher levels of education. But these personality traits go further, the study says, in show the differences among the women within the two age groups.
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[...] Childbearing Age Has More to do with Personality [...]
Chelsea Clinton Wedding Day | Strollerderby commented on Jul 29 10 at 5:22 pmShannon Cate commented on Jul 29 10 at 1:36 pmNow we need a study that correlates class and education with personality tests.
Miss Chris commented on Jul 30 10 at 10:16 pmWhat do these mean? What exactly is the difference between someone who is “open” and someone who is “extroverted” and how scientifically can that be classified?
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