Narcissism: Birth Order, Siblings (Literature Review)
October 7, 2025
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WATCH Golden Child and Scapegoat Black SheepNarcissistic Parent's Projective Splitting
Two developmental paths for narcissism are also impacted by emergent roles (scapegoat, golden child, etc.) and siblings. But being an only child and birth order are irrelevant.
LITERATURE
Eyring, W. E., & Sobelman, S. (1996). Narcissism and Birth Order. Psychological Reports, 78(2), 403406. (Original work published 1996)
Curtis, J. M., & Cowell, D. R. (1993). Relation of Birth Order and Scores on Measures of Pathological Narcissism. Psychological Reports, 72(1), 311315. (Original work published 1993)
A study on Conscientiousness, Narcissism and Self-Esteem among First Born and Last- Born Siblings by Anoushka Malik, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Approaches in Psychology, Vol. 2 No. 9 (2024): September
Dufner, M., Back, M. D., Oehme, F. F., & Schmukle, S. C. (2019). The End of a StereotypeOnly Children Are Not More Narcissistic Than People With Siblings. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(3), 416424. (Original work published 2020)
Joshua D. Foster, Jennifer R. Raley, Joshua D. Isen,
Further evidence that only children are not more narcissistic than individuals with siblings, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 161, 2020, 109977, ISSN 01918869,
Ferencz, T., Láng, A., Kocsor, F. et al. Sibling relationship quality and parental rearing style influence the development of Dark Triad traits. Curr Psychol 42, 2476424781 (2023).
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