An Investigation to Evaluate the Influence of Birth Order on Vulnerability of Fear of Happiness and Imposter Phenomenon Among Adults

Abstract

This examination focused on investigation of correlation between fear of happiness, widely known as Cherophobia and imposter phenomenon in correlation with birth order, using the scales, 1. Fear of Happiness scale by Joshanloo and 2. Imposter Phenomenon scale developed by Clance. A sample of 100 young adults was taken out of which (n=50) participants were males and (n=50) participants were females while greater classification was done on the basis of birth order with (n=25) first born, (n=25) second born, (n=2) third born and (n=25) fourth born from the city of Dehradun, Uttarakhand using both Online and Offline data collection techniques. Results reflected that Fear of happiness and Imposter phenomenon has high positive correlation values with increasing birth order, meaning higher values and characteristics of Fear of happiness and imposter phenomenon were found with increasing birth order of the children.