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Indicators of feminine gender identity in latency‐aged boys in the Draw a Person and Rorschach tests
Author(s) -
Benziman Hagit,
Marodes Selina
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199702)53:2<143::aid-jclp8>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - rorschach test , psychology , projective test , developmental psychology , gender identity , identity (music) , social psychology , psychoanalysis , physics , acoustics
Seven diagnostic indicators were examined for their potential to identify latency aged boys who had feminine gender identity. Nineteen emotionally disturbed boys (average age 10.2) with feminine gender identity were compared on these indicators with 21 control boys. The indicators which were found to be valid were drawing the female figure with a greater value than the male figure in the DAP; difficulty in identification with the male figure in stories to the DAP; a low relative rate of male human responses and/or a high relative rate of female human responses in the Rorschach; and initial butterfly response to card V in the Rorschach. Using these indicators in combination reduced the false positive and negative rates associated with each individual indicator. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.