Curtis J M, Cowell D R
Glendale Family Service Association, California School of Professional Psychology.
Psychol Rep. 1993 Feb;72(1):311-5. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1993.72.1.311.
To study the relationship between birth order and pathological narcissism, it was predicted that firstborn and only children would score significantly higher on standardized measures of pathological narcissism. Two such measures, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, were administered to 50 randomly selected subjects from a metropolitan mental health and family treatment agency. Subjects were asked to indicate their ordinal birth positions, e.g., first, middle, last, or only, and then were administered both instruments. Analysis supported the initial prediction by indicating that firstborn and only children had higher mean scores on the measures of pathological narcissism. It might be advisable for clinicians to identify patients' ordinal positions while appraising relevant diagnostic criteria and eventual treatment planning.
为了研究出生顺序与病理性自恋之间的关系，研究人员预测，头胎出生的孩子和独生子女在病理性自恋的标准化测量中得分会显著更高。研究人员从一个大城市的心理健康和家庭治疗机构中随机选取了50名受试者，对他们进行了两项此类测量，即米隆临床多轴问卷和自恋型人格问卷。受试者被要求表明自己的出生顺序，例如，头胎、中间出生、末胎或独生子女，然后接受这两项测试。分析结果支持了最初的预测，表明头胎出生的孩子和独生子女在病理性自恋测量中的平均得分更高。临床医生在评估相关诊断标准和最终治疗方案时，确定患者的出生顺序可能是明智的。
