The Firstborn Phenomenon Among Psychiatric Residents


The Firstborn Phenomenon Among Psychiatric Residents is a scholarly work, published in 1972 in ''American Journal of Psychiatry''. The main subjects of the publication include personality, medicine, first-born, sexism in academia, employment discrimination, birth order, psychiatry, psychology, and clinical psychology. In support of this, the authors present their findings of residents' responses to a questionnaire regarding their training; of 160 subjects who responded, 92 were firstborn children.

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