the fact that your personality can be
affected by being the oldest sibling
middle child young and sibling or an
only child has been studied for years
thousands of these psychological studies
have been done over many years and
recent meta-analysis have come up with
some real current themes and ideas we're
going to talk to you about them today
we're gonna discuss whether birth order
can affect your personality well what
what are you I mean I'm just child
Athene and I'm the middle child first
Born's were seen to possess more of
these types of qualities one higher
academic achievements and ambition hi
sir 92% how the agent double-oh these
are my supposed to come prime minister
over this to a stronger sense of
responsibility and maturity responsible
mature we all get it and number three
better leadership skills than other
birth orders firstborn children tend to
get a lot more attention and affection
from their parents because I mean it's
their first kid why not but at the same
time there's also way higher
expectations for them than they're
following siblings the theory behind
this is that it's sort of a
self-fulfilling prophecy if there's
higher expectations placed on you then
you're more likely to work harder and
want to live up to those expectations
similarly if someone thinks you're
supposed to be the responsible one
you're more likely to take on that role
middle born children were seen to
express more of these types of qualities
one cooperative I'll put that down sorry
too flexible and social law oh man don't
worry about it it's not a problem at all
you know dirt off my shoulder there's no
I in team I got your back and you're
broke live three able to make and
maintain friendships easily
you're my best friend you've been with
me through thick and thin and I
appreciate everything you've done for me
being the proverbial monkey in the
middle these children don't have the
high expectations of the firstborn child
nor the leniency of the last born child
as a result they tend to be less
ambitious and competitive than their
predecessors and have a more relaxed
attitude towards life the middle child
is often a social butterfly because they
receive less attention than their other
siblings they seek out more
relationships and friendships outside of
their family the last born child or the
youngest of the group
tends to have these traits one they're
charming and likable many Instagram
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they're possibly more creative than
their older siblings what you doing no
no I'm very good just doodling you drew
that three they have a strong sense of
security and confidence CEO and i dpnt
that's me I'm confident I wanna see you
be brave I might be too strong head on
compliment o combatants and their before
they're generally less responsible and
mature than older siblings I forgot my
phone wallet keys and your shoes oh my
God look what this is often a case I've
been there done that as the parents have
already had a bunch of kids so their
leniency is a lot higher and their
expectations are much lower
however being younger in the birth order
often leads to a different sense of
responsibility and often feeling like
others will take the lead lone children
are seen to have more of these traits
academically able creative and
resourceful
well actually according to my research
the correct answer it actually it's a
lot deeper than that you see the
information that you can have that
opinion but the honest truth is that
you're just not really understanding
what's going on mature and responsible
the thing I remembered your Key's phone
wallet and my shoes but they also tend
to hate disorder and like to be in
control hey there bud you want to be
here Oh actually I don't drink
thanks I want to try putting on makeup
for the first time I've never done that
before I don't want to being an only
child the expectations are always high
but unlike the firstborn you never need
to fight for your parents attention as a
result there's more potential to thrive
in every sense of the word because your
parents attention is undivided and
growing up in a household of only adults
would lead the child to emulate the
specific actions of the parents leading
to more responsibility and maturity and
also a very structured environment
seeing as they have never had to
compromise with their siblings and deal
with the fact that there's always a lot
of chaos in life they sometimes have
trouble relating to their peers and also
feel very out of control when things in
their life
go their way now of course this is all
super interesting but there are a lot of
extraneous variables from gender to
socioeconomic status to age gap between
siblings and how many siblings there are
but these are just some of the theories
out there and it'll be interesting to
see how they pertain to you do they the
theories do kind of pertain to me I'm
very irresponsible and less mature than
my older sister I guess I am more
creative and definitely more like as
going than her so that sort of youngest
child sort of does relate opinions
outside and I'd say for me I said I'm a
middle child but I also was a youngest
child for about seven years so I feel
like some of the traits match up for me
but it might be a little confused
because then maybe when I had my younger
brother I felt even like an older
sibling or a first something I don't
know why am i really doubt I mean now
you're kind of a smorgasbord of all of
them so yeah these suppose it affects
the widely studied have been mostly
inconclusive in psychology so though
some aspects may be true for you which
makes a lot of sense it wouldn't be the
same for every single person around the
world in a specific birth border at the
end of the day it's important to
remember that your personality and your
destiny in life is not predetermined at
Birth thanks for watching this week's
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of these theories actually pertain to
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