define birth order, its types, factors and effects of birth order on personality
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There are many theories of how personality forms, adapts, and is affected by the external environment. Birth order theory was developed by Alfred Adler in the twentieth century. It stated the order in which a child was born impacted his or her personality.
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Birth order, is a term that is used to describe the order in which children are born in any family. In general, if you look at common birth order in any family, then it is named as First born, Second born and so on or the eldest of all.
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In general, as per the human studies, birth order is believed to have a very small or profound effect on the mental behavior of any child in the family. Scientifically speaking, many examples in the past have already shown that birth order does have a greater effect on the personality of an individual or family.
It is a feature that is believed to affect your mind or the child’s mental and psychological status. As per science studies (but may not be true in all cases) a child that is eldest or earlier born child is believed to have a much higher level of IQ as compared to other children born in the same family.
When speaking of personality, it is certain that no scientific evidences till date have been provided that can hundred percent prove that birth order does have affect on child’s personality or behavior. There certainly may be other secondary reasons that may affect the behavior of a child in a family.
As per scientists it is obvious that when within a family a second child is born, then the first born immediately experiences his or her loss of privilege. This is one of the conditions that can be termed as middle child syndrome and under this case, the second child does experience slight change in his or her behavior.
One of the reasons is that the first child feel his or her privacy has completely been intruded by another child. It has also been seen that this effect can in fact last for many years or in some cases, if tackled well, it can also be rectified immediately within few days after the birth of the second child.
Again the birth order and its effects also depend on the type of family – nuclear or extended family type.