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Birth Order

Its Influence on Personality

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  • © 1983

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Authors:
  1. Cécile Ernst

    1. Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Zürich 8, Switzerland

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  2. Jules Angst

    1. Forschungsdirektion, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Zürich 8, Switzerland

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. A Survey of World Literature 1946–1980

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Outline of Fallacies in Birth Order Research

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 3-14

    3. Birth Order and Biological Differences

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 15-21

    4. Research on Twins and Only Children

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 22-28

    5. Birth Order and IQ

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 29-49

    6. Birth Order and School Achievement

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 50-69

    7. Birth Order and Occupational Status

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 70-73

    8. Birth Order Differences in Socialization and Personality

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 74-189

    9. Birth Order and Mental Illness

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 190-238

    10. Summary and General Conclusions

      • Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst
      Pages 239-242

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 285-343
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About this book

This study appears at a time when a decisive turn is due in the research on personality development. After many years of stagna­ tion and misguided research in this field, this book should lead to a thorough revision and a better understanding of current views on the factors which have an influence on personality. Let us consider the unsatisfactory aspects of the recent develop­ ments in personality studies. At the beginning of this century, the revolutionary insight gained ground that personality is susceptible to various influences, in particular to those resulting from human interaction. This insight swept away many of the old scholastic concepts and gained special importance in the fields of pedagogics and psychotherapy. How­ ever, in the wake of every great discovery we find inherent dangers. For years, various claims and creeds on the malleability of personality have been put forward as if they were proven facts. Lay literature, too, was permeated with wrong and distorted information on factors which might endanger child development.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Zürich 8, Switzerland

    Cécile Ernst

  • Forschungsdirektion, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Zürich 8, Switzerland

    Jules Angst

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Birth Order

  • Book Subtitle: Its Influence on Personality

  • Authors: Cécile Ernst, Jules Angst

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68399-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-68401-2Published: 21 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-68399-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 346

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry

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