Birth order impacts personality

Almaty. January 31. Kazakhstan Today - A new study has revealed that birth order influences your character, career and relationships, the agency reports.

Psychologists believe our characters are established by the age of six. Now, a fascinating new book explains the factor that exerts the most powerful influence on us all is the order in which we're born. Here, in an intriguing extract, clinical psychologist Linda Blair reveals it's not just your character that's affected by birth order - but your career and relationships, too, Daily Mail reported.

Picture yourself meeting someone new. You don't know much about him yet - but there's a powerful attraction and you've agreed to meet again. If all goes well, you'll start seeing each other regularly.

Over the coming months, you'll slowly discover whether or not he's self-confident, disorganised, ambitious, jealous or emotionally needy.

However, there's another far quicker way to find out whether your match is made in heaven.

Just ask him what position he holds in his family. Was he born first or last? Did he come in the middle - either as number two or lower down - or was he an only child?

Each of these birth-order positions has specific characteristics. Not only are they likely to apply to your new boyfriend, but they also apply to you.

So, for example, if he's a last-born and you're a first-born, you'll probably find that you get on extremely well. But if you're both only children, there could be problems ahead.

The foundations of your character were established primarily before the age of six or seven - a period when your place in the family was a big factor in your life. Indeed, a growing number of psychological studies show that birth positions have a strong effect on character.

Birth order, however, is only one important piece of the puzzle. A person's character will also be affected by other events in early life - such as parents divorcing, or if there was wider abuse in the house, or constantly moving home.

What looking at birth positions will do is help you negotiate the minefield of potential influences on character by giving you the likely characteristics of any potential partner.

Which means that knowing your lover's position in a family will definitely help predict how difficult or easy it will be to get along...

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