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Birth Order and the Obsessive-Compulsive Character
Lawrence Kayton, MD;
George F. Borge, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(6):751-754.
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SYSTEMATIC study of the importance of birth order began in 1874 when Galton showed that eminent scientists were typically firstborn or only children. Since then the literature has become replete with investigations associating personality traits with ordinal position.1,2 These studies, however, have produced conflicting results, and many have come to regard such correlations with a great deal of skepticism.
The association of birth order to psychopathological conditions such as schizophrenia, delinquency, depression, and alcoholism, has also been controversial. The situation may be exemplified by the investigations in schizophrenia. The overrepresentation of latter-borns in American and British populations of schizophrenics has been demonstrated rather consistently.3-5 There is, however, evidence which indicates the predominance of older children in schizophrenic populations when small families are investigated.6 Studies done in India, China, and Japan have shown that schizophrenia is more prevalent in the eldest male.7-9 Thus, a relationship
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Author Affiliations
Chicago
From the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training of Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago. Dr. Borge is currently with the Adult Psychiatry Section of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 6, 1967.
Reprint requests to National Institute of Mental Health, Adult Psychiatry Section, Bethesda, Md 20014 (Dr. Borge).
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