Birth Order Theory: Insights Into Your Personality

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Tiffi fills her glass with fresh juice and goes back to her googling. Her eye catches this title - Birth Order Theory: Insights Into Your Personality, so she decides to read it.

‘Developing one's personality can come from a variety of sources and influences in a child's life, it can be fascinating and important to understand those influences. One great way to understand the influence of birth order on one's personality is to discuss it with a therapist, they may be able to help you identify parts of your identity and how they developed. Understanding this and other aspects of one's identity is only one reason therapy can be beneficial, a therapist can also help improve overall wellbeing and address any anxiety, relationship issues, or even sleep patterns.

The study of personality and its formation has interested researchers and scientists for centuries. Personality refers to an individual's different patterns of thinking, behaving, and feeling. People's personalities encompass nearly every aspect of their human experience. Studying personalities usually falls into two categories:

• Understanding differences in people's personality characteristics- like temperament, sociability, and motivation

• Discovering how various parts of a person come together as a whole

There are many theories of how personality forms, adapts, and is affected by one's external environment. One personality study focuses on a person's birth order. Birth order theory was developed by Alfred Adler in the twentieth century; it stated: the order in which a child was born impacted his or her personality. ’ (Source)

Let’s continue - Birth Order Theory: Adler's Research

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