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How your birth order influences your personality
Some experts theorize that birth order is an important tool for predicting an adult’s behavior and determining how they feel and perceive the world.
The psychiatrist Alfred Adler (1870-1937) first proposed a theory about the effect of birth order on personality. Other theorists such as Frank Sulloway and Delroy Paulhus also wrote on the subject.
In general, it is believed that birth order is as important as gender and almost as important as genetics. No two children have the same parents, even if they belong to the same family, because parents are different with each of their children.
The following categories fit these theories
The eldest son: leader and responsible
Generally speaking, they tend to be:
Insurance
Conscientious
They tend to be structured
They are cautious
Controllers
Winners
Those responsible
They know how to behave
They reflect a miniature version of their own parents.
Older children often have more in common with other older children than with their own siblings. Having been the firstborn, they received so much attention from their parents when they were the only children in the house that they tend to be much more responsible, careful, balanced, and reliable than their siblings. They are, in a way, a reflection of their parents.
They are generally high achievers who seek the approval of others, but on the other hand, they can be domineering and perfectionistic. They typically thrive in leadership roles such as law, medicine, or management. With their siblings, they act like mini-parents, often trying to dominate them and becoming accustomed to guiding others since assuming that role with their own siblings.
The biggest problem older siblings experience is that when the next sibling arrives, they may feel a sense of loss, as they are dethroned from the special place they held as the only child. All the attention, which was once exclusively theirs, must now be shared with their sibling. This feeling of loss can lead to a certain predisposition to developing a melancholic temperament.