The Influence Of Birth Order

Abstract

Birth order is the order a child is born in the family. Birth order is believed to have a serious lasting effect on psychological development.

Alfred Adler is a pioneer in the study of birth order. He believed that the firstborn child would be in a favorable position, enjoying the full attention of the eager new parents until the arrival of a second child. Adler, a secondborn, regarded firstborns as “power-hungry conservatives,” middleborns as competitive, and youngest children as lazy. He reinforced other scientists to study the 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

Laterborns cannot babysit themselves, so they are looking for a latent talent by exploring new things. That’s the reason they are more open to new experiences and adventurous.

Middle children are less closely identified with the family. They are less likely to ask parents for help in an emergency. Middle children are also less likely to report being loved in childhood.

As a firstborn, I agree with statements above. I am very bossy and serious, that is why I’ve been in a school parliament first, then I became the president of the school and also ran 2 clubs at school. But I disagree with the fact that later-borns do not try to be dominant because I can see that my sister does want to boss other people around. She wants to be the “monitor” of the class and the dance club, and she works hard to get those roles. It is true that my younger sister has more hobbies and talents than I do.

Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, which attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as perception, language, memory —as the functional products of natural

Sibling experience family, social, and work environments in dissimilar ways because of birth order. An example of this is older kids being more bossy and dominant, because they were surrogate parents to their younger siblings and are used to people obeying them. Birth order is an important subject to study, because the information about it provides explanation about the reason people act the way they do. It is a good thing for parents to learn to understand their children better, too. Also, it is useful for every person to read some information about birth order and to understand themselves better and to know strong sides of their personalities and the reason they obtain specific characteristics that their siblings