PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Using “Adler’s birth order” definition, we operationalize birth order as having five categories: Only child, first born, second child, middle children at least of three and youngest excluding seconds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Birth order and sibling relationships were also considered important by Adler. He identified five positions from which children tend to view life: the oldest child, the second child of only two, the middle child, the youngest child, and the only child. The oldest child usually receives a lot of attention early in life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Developed in the 1900s by psychotherapist Alfred Adler, birth order theory suggests that the sequence in which a child is born within their family-from first born to the youngest and every position in between-shapes their thoughts and behaviors.

Detailed explanation-4: -Birth order, defined as an individual’s rank by age among siblings, has long been of interest to psychologists as well as lay-people. Much of the fascination has focused on the possible role of birth order in shaping personality and behavior.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alfred Adler believed the second-born children (in some families the middle child), grows up sharing the attention from the caregivers with the first born. Adler believed that since the second-born children grow up sharing the attention, those children in general, are more likely to cooperate.