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Because of the relative scarcity of diagnosed psychiatric illness in the general population, the large majority of authors study birth order or birth rank of patients within a given diagnosis, using birth order as the dependent variable. The question (often not explicitly formulated) behind this type of research is the following: Are there factors related to the psychological situation of the first- (or second- or later-) born, which are apt to lead to schizophrenia or some other disorder more frequently than in other positions?
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Ernst, C., Angst, J. (1983). Birth Order and Mental Illness. In: Birth Order. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68399-2_8
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