Birth Order
Birth order and how it impacts personality
Personality is said to be moulded by ones experiences in life; this can be further derived to personality is based on the environment in which one grows up in. The environment in which one grows up in is influenced a large number of factors. One such factor that has a dominant effect on the environment is birth order. Birth order is the theory that one’s place in their family birth order (e.g oldest, youngest) indirectly affects ones personality via the environment. It was first proposed as a theory by Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler, and ever since it has been a topic of debate in what is deemed popular psychology. While the theory may be controversial in some aspects, it can indeed impact ones personality. Birth order impacts personality by changing the relationship between the child parents, changing the childs view in responsibility, and changing in how the child behaves in society.
To begin with, birth order changes the relationship between child and parent, because it is a determining factor in how much attention the parents give their child. First born children receive undivided attention from their parents up until the birth of the next child. Even though they lose the undivided attention from their parents, they always receive attention because they are the first to experience the different parts of life (I.e adolescence, adulthood). The young child often receives the most attention from the parents, as they are last in the order, they receive their parents undivided attention throughout their childhood. This causes them to have a more sheltered childhood where they rely on parents and siblings to aid them in troubles they have. Because of the sheltered childhood, youngest children are often said to have a spoiled and relying personality. Middle children have the smallest frame of undivided attention, lasting from the moment they are born until the moment there younger siblings are born. As a result of
Personality is said to be moulded by ones experiences in life; this can be further derived to personality is based on the environment in which one grows up in. The environment in which one grows up in is influenced a large number of factors. One such factor that has a dominant effect on the environment is birth order. Birth order is the theory that one’s place in their family birth order (e.g oldest, youngest) indirectly affects ones personality via the environment. It was first proposed as a theory by Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler, and ever since it has been a topic of debate in what is deemed popular psychology. While the theory may be controversial in some aspects, it can indeed impact ones personality. Birth order impacts personality by changing the relationship between the child parents, changing the childs view in responsibility, and changing in how the child behaves in society.
To begin with, birth order changes the relationship between child and parent, because it is a determining factor in how much attention the parents give their child. First born children receive undivided attention from their parents up until the birth of the next child. Even though they lose the undivided attention from their parents, they always receive attention because they are the first to experience the different parts of life (I.e adolescence, adulthood). The young child often receives the most attention from the parents, as they are last in the order, they receive their parents undivided attention throughout their childhood. This causes them to have a more sheltered childhood where they rely on parents and siblings to aid them in troubles they have. Because of the sheltered childhood, youngest children are often said to have a spoiled and relying personality. Middle children have the smallest frame of undivided attention, lasting from the moment they are born until the moment there younger siblings are born. As a result of