Judy Dunn’s study was based on her work examining how parental signals set the tone for sibling emotion and affect the older siblings way of receiving new, younger siblings. Dunn’s research traces back to the framework of personality traits of first borns feeling deprived of parental attention because of younger siblings but includes the relationship effects of the daughter and mother to show how important the initial mother-daughter relationship was to future sibling ties.
Alan E. Stewart, psychologist at the University of Georgia again …show more content…
But the information unique to birth order are the exceptions to the rule. The rule being that birth order is the deciding factor of personality and development. But in 1996, when this belief was most common, Frank Sulloway, author of Born to Rebel, suggested there are wide varieties of personality influences through his studies and scenarios. One of the exceptions to birth order rule is the factor of chance. Chance plays an extremely huge role in the development of not only of personality but family dynamics for the whole family. If a parent passes away the effects on personality by the parents’ death then has major effects on the siblings which has no relation to their birth order at all.
Nature versus nurture is a key to parenting that greatly affects personality of children without being connected to their initial birth order. Nature versus nurture is best explained by how the child is parented based on his or her behavior from birth being different than how other siblings may be parented according to their own natural behaviors. Sulloway examines
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