The Identification of Birth Order Personality Attributes, views the first born child as the favored birth position followed by the middle, youngest, and only-child positions. The author Lawrence Nyman found that subjects ranked their own birth position similar to ways other s ranked that position.

Nyman took 139 undergraduate and graduate students and asked them to list three words that describe each birth position, first-born, middle born, last born, and only children. The subjects then had to rate each word they used in terms of positive or negative using a scale ran

ging from -5, being most negative, to +5, being most positive. The subjects were grouped according to their birth rank and sex. The favored position, started with first-born middle, youngest, and then only-child positions. Characteristics that some peoples found positive were considered negative by others. This contrast reflects the complications of personal dynamics.

The first study performed was how personality attributes to birth rank. Participants were asked about the personality traits of first, second, third, and only children. 196 of the participants believed first-borns are the most intelligent, responsible, obedient, stable, the least emotional and quite clearly the least creative. Middle children are the most envious and the least bold and talkative, last born are the most creative, emotional, extraverted, disobedient, irresponsible and talkative, and only children are the most disagreeable.. Participants gave the most positive ratings to people in the same rank as themselves.

The eldest birth position was viewed as dominant-aggressive, a quality that reflects both strength and weakness. The middle birth position identified with social able characteristics, thoughtfulness, responsibility, ambition, and independence. The youngest birth position was viewed as social and thoughtful. Independence, ambition, socialablity, dominance, responsibility, thoughtfulness, and intelligence were all associated with the only-child position. Birth order position seems to be linked to all personality traits. The participants all shared an image of negative and positive traits of each birth position.

Subjects were only children aged 13-16 who live

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