Can Being an Only Child or Multiple Siblings Influence Your Personality?

Can Being an Only Child or Multiple Siblings Influence Your Personality?

It is very interesting that when you are being with your friends or other people, you will see the differences of their characteristics. I always observe people’s behaviors and realize that most people who are generous, friendly and easy to make friends are multiple siblings and people who are confident, ambitious and hard to make friends are only children. It seems to be impossible that being multiple siblings or being an only child are not related to their personalities, but according to a psychological study, being an only child and multiple siblings can influence on personalities.
An only child is a person who has no siblings and the one who gets attention from parent. Only children never have to use their effort to make their parents be interested in. Parents only have one responsibility to pay for education fees, cloths, food, and toys. But they are only one expectation of their parents, and have pressure to be successful at the same time. These are the reason why only children have confident, ambitious, and self-motivated personalities. They can set their goals clearly, go straight to achieve and don’t have to worry about anything. Sometimes, they seem to be little selfish and hard to make friends because they’ve never learned to help and share anything with brothers or sisters. There are no sibling rivalries and no competitions for things and their parents’ attention and affection, but they feel really lonely.
Multiple siblings have faster development than an only child because children with siblings always learn from other’s mistakes, and elders often teach younger siblings. Multiple siblings have less pressure to be successful than an only child. They can live their lives more comfortable than an only child because their parents have many offspring to expect for. They learn how to help, how to share, how to work, and how to live with others, so they are friendly, generous, considerate, easy to makes friends, and not lonely. But multiple siblings are spread their parents’ attention and time. Thus, they are jealous of their siblings and have to use their effort to make parents be interested in. Moreover, multiple siblings always have sibling rivalries. When they were young, this problem is not a big deal to control, but when they become adults, it is hard to control and may be out of control such as when dividing heritage of their parents.
There are many factors that influence personalities of people such as environment where they are growing up, parents’ raising, and their attitudes about life. Knowing that people are only children or multiple siblings can help you to understand their personalities and understand people around you better but it isn’t only one factor that influence to people’s personalities.