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Abstract Aim and Background: Sulloway suggested that birth-order has a significant effect on personality traits, proposing first-borns children are more perfectionistic and more neurotic than later-borns. In abnormal form, perfectionism is closely associated with eating disorders and obsessive compulsive. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of birth-order on perfectionism, pathological eating attitude, obsessive compulsive features, and obsessive compulsive personality. Methods and Materials: This study was a post facto research. The statistical population of the research comprised of male and female undergraduate students in Tabriz and Sarab branches of Payam e Noor, and Azarbayjan universities in the academic year 1390-91. A group of 790 university students, using Stratified random sampling method, took part in this research. Participants answered to The Perfectionism Inventory, Eating Attitude test (EAT-26), Obsessive Compulsive Inventory- Revised (OCI-R) & Millons obsessive compulsive personality scale. Data were analyzed using correlational coefficient and one way analysis of covariance. Findings: There are no significant differences on perfectionism, pathological eating attitude, obsessive compulsive disorder, and obsessive compulsive personality among first, middle and late born. Conclusions: Sulloways theory and the effect of birth order on personality traits are not approved. 

Keywords: Birth-order, Perfectionism, Pathological Eating Attitude, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Personality

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