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Verbal tests and transsexualism
Author(s) -
Kenna J. C.,
Hoenig J.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb06949.x
Subject(s) - feminization (sociology) , wechsler adult intelligence scale , psychology , vocabulary , test (biology) , transsexual , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , transgender , linguistics , gender studies , psychoanalysis , cognition , sociology , paleontology , philosophy , biology
Gender discriminating vocabulary tests administered to a consecutive series of 53 male transsexuals show different results. The Slater Selective Vocabulary Test, Cohen's factors and the Terman‐Miles Attitude Interest Analysis Test (M‐F) show male transsexuals to have a higher degree of feminization than normal controls. The Wechsler‐Bellevue Vocabulary Test and the Wechsler M‐F Test are difficult to interpret, and do not show a clear trend of feminization in transsexual males. The investigation has shown that male transsexuals have a vocabulary which differs from that of normal males in the direction of greater feminization.