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Gender identity and adjustment: Understanding the impact of individual and normative differences in sex typing
Author(s) -
Lurye Leah E.,
Zosuls Kristina M.,
Ruble Diane N.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.214
Subject(s) - normative , psychology , identity (music) , construct (python library) , developmental psychology , typing , gender identity , social psychology , social identity theory , social group , philosophy , physics , epistemology , biology , computer science , acoustics , genetics , programming language
The relationship among gender identity, sex typing, and adjustment has attracted the attention of social and developmental psychologists for many years. However, they have explored this issue with different assumptions and different approaches. Generally the approaches differ regarding whether sex typing is considered adaptive versus maladaptive, measured as an individual or normative difference, and whether gender identity is regarded as a unidimensional or multidimensional construct. In this chapter, we consider both perspectives and suggest that the developmental timing and degree of sex typing, as well as the multidimensionality of gender identity, be considered when examining their relationship to adjustment. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.