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That’s to say, where you fall in the family pecking order definitely (OK, probably) has a bearing on your personality. Below, I spoke with psychologist Heather Hagen about four personality trait.
Responsible, obedient and loyal, you’re likelier to pursue higher education than your younger siblings, per a 2003 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Through his research, Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler—who is also credited for developing the superiority complex and retail therapy theories—suggests that the rank of one’s birth order ...
Since Adler's time, the influence of birth order on the development of personality has become a controversial issue in psychology. Among the general public, it is widely believed that personality is strongly influenced by birth order, but many psychologists dispute this.
Many researchers and psychologists today study the topic of birth order and how it affects children—the term "middle child syndrome" developed as a term over time. It describes the shared characteristics middle children feel and the events they go through that are specifically related to being the middle child. [2]
A 2015 study of around 377,000 students from the University of Illinois found no meaningful correlation being birth order and personality or intelligence scores. [11] A 2020 study from the University of Houston found no evidence to suggest birth order has any effect on career choice or career type. [12] [13]
AsapSCIENCE left in the comments section of the video.The birth order theory stems from psychotherapist Alfred Adler. The personality traits came from how their parents treated each child
Also known as individual psychology. Sees the person as a whole. Ideas include compensation for feelings of inferiority leading to striving for significance toward a fictional final goal with a private logic. Birth order and mistaken goals are explored to examine mistaken motivations of children and adults in the family constellation.