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Psychosexual development of adolescent males after malignancies in childhood
Author(s) -
Ropponen P.,
Aalberg V.,
Rautonen J.,
Kalmari H.,
Siimes M. A.
Publication year - 1990
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.1600-0447.1990.tb03055.x
Subject(s) - psychosexual development , human sexuality , sex organ , sexual identity , psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , gender studies , sociology , biology , genetics
We studied psychosexual development in 28 adolescent males who had survived leukemia and compared it with that in 25 adolescent males who had survived other malignancies in childhood. A clinical semistructured psychiatric interview was used to form 8 criteria of psychosexual development. Sexual identity was also assessed using a psychological test. By every criterion, development was more disturbed in patients who had survived leukemia. Attitudes toward adult‐type genital sexuality, contact ability with the opposite sex, and the developmental level of sexuality were most significantly affected.