Birth Order Affects on Personality

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Topic: Does Birth Order affect on personality, choice of career, which has big influence to the workplace environment?

Abstract
Birth Order Affects on Personality has been a controversial topic for a long period of time. There are a large percentage of people who are aware of it but they can not fully identify the meaning. Birth Order refers to the position in the family that a child occupies at the time he or she is born that he or she can be the First-Borns, Middle-Borns, Last-Borns, Only Child, Only Son or anywhere in between (Bartell). Many psychologists have been researched about this topic to get more understanding about Birth Order Affects on Personality and how it does. Generally, the explorations are about the First-Borns, Middle-Borns and Last-Borns. The purpose of this paper is to discover Effects of Birth Order. This will be achieved by examine and study about Birth Order Affects on Personality, Choice of Career, Parenting Fairness and Sense of Belief in Birth Order. Also this paper progresses to analyse typically how people act upon their position in the family. With primary research method of surveying, information from expert and personal perspective of writer, this paper will conclude

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