The characteristics listed above does not provides a good representation of who people are according to their birth order. According to Alfred Adler’s birth order hypothesis, a person’s character may be influenced by the chronological sequence in which an individual is born within his or her family (Lejarraga et al., 2019). For instance, kids who are firstborn have a particular set of personality characteristics, whereas only children have another set, and so on. While certain parts of Adler’s idea might be true, not everybody will agree with it. More than only the birth order of an individual and family history can influence their personality.
In the birth order of my family, I fall in the first position. However, I do not have any of the listed characteristics. The listed characteristics of firstborns include achieve, perfectionist, leader, responsible, bossy, motivated, controlling, reliable and more. Contrary to this, I am neither controlling nor bossy. The same applies to my siblings. Most of them have unique characteristics that are not similar to the ones listed above.
I do not think that birth order plays a strong role in who we are as individuals. According to various large-scale studies released in the past few decades, birth order does impact a person’s personality when they become adults. Compared to past studies that asserted a link between birth order and character, this new generation of research utilized broader collection of data and more reliable methods of statistical analysis (Lejarraga et al., 2019). There are other critical factors that influence who we become. According to me, how we perceive ourselves in our environment and how we decide to interact with our surroundings determines all we do, including the decisions we take and those we decide to avoid.
One of the major factors that shapes who we become is the society. Long before we are ever thought of, our identity is shaped. It is a truth that years of labeling and categorizing based on characteristics and expected actions have already started to shape one’s identity in our society. In the development of our identities, our families are equally important. Each of our connections with our surrounding have an influence, but those with close friends and family members have a particularly vast effect on the way we construct our personalities (Lejarraga et al., 2019). We look toward our parents, siblings, and other close relatives for developing our identities because they are among the initial people we are exposed to. The media, like society, shapes how we should and, consequently, do view ourselves. The media has a direct impact on our world. Advertising, TV shows, movies, and video games send us messages that either reinforce or contradict what we think regarding life and if we ought to be happy with who we are. This can happen both consciously and unconsciously.
In the debate of nature vs nature, I believe that both play a crucial role in development of a person’s personality. This discussion does not change my perspective from last week. I still believe that neither nurture nor nature are greater to each other. All elements, however, are necessary for our identity and growth. Additionally, nature and nurture have important relationships with each other across every aspect of our lives. Although a small minority implement a very nativistic or fundamental pragmatist perspective, the complexity of the variables influencing character and development in humans cannot be easily separated from. Instead, these affects come from the interaction of environmental and genetic factors.
Reference
Lejarraga, T., Frey, R., Schnitzlein, D. D., & Hertwig, R. (2019). No effect of birth order on adult risk taking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(13), 6019-6024. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814153116
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