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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.

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Author:   Cecile Ernst ,  M. Bleuler ,  Jules Angst
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9783642684012

ISBN 10:   3642684017
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   21 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I A Survey of World Literature 1946–1980.- 1 Outline of Fallacies in Birth Order Research.- 2 Birth Order and Biological Differences.- 3 Research on Twins and Only Children.- 4 Birth Order and IQ.- 5 Birth Order and School Achievement.- 6 Birth Order and Occupational Status.- 7 Birth Order Differences in Socialization and Personality.- 8 Birth Order and Mental Illness.- 9 Summary and General Conclusions.- II Analysis of Empirical Data.- 10 Examination of Hypotheses Concerning Birth Order and Sibship Size by Multivariate Analysis of a Representative Young Adult Population.- 11 Relation of the Empirical Results to the Survey of World Literature.- References.- Author Index.

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