Measurement of Deviant Gender Development in Boys

Bates, John E.; Bentler, Peter M.; Thompson, Spencer K.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1973.tb02198.x

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“…In addition, the source references will provide information on parameters such as sample size, number of items (for questionnaires and interview schedules), and whether or not the measure can be used with both boys and girls or has only been normed for one gender. For example, the Child Behavior and Attitude Questionnaire, originally developed by Bates, Bentler, and Thompson (1973), was for boys only. Subsequently, Meyer-Bahlburg, Sandberg, Yager, Dolezal, and Ehrhardt (1994) developed a comparable version for girls and subjected both versions to a new factor analysis, which yielded a Bipolar FemininityMasculinity Scale factor.…”

Section: Measures For Childrenmentioning

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Measurement of Psychosexual Differentiation

Zucker

2005

Arch Sex Behav

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Since the early 1990s, there has been a surge in interest in the study of infants, children, adolescents, and adults with physical intersex conditions or other congenital conditions that affect, among other things, the configuration of the external genitalia. Regarding psychologic evaluation, an important aspect of both short-term and long-term outcome concerns gender differentiation. This article provides an overview of various measures pertaining to gender identity, gender role, and sexual orientation that have been used in assessment studies of samples of either children and adults with gender identity disorder and/or children and adults with various physical intersex conditions. All of the measures have good psychometric quality although some have been studied more systematically than others. It is hoped that this overview will provide a template for the new generation of studies that are looking at both gender development and sexual orientation in people born with physical intersex conditions.

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Section: Measures For Childrenmentioning

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Measurement of Psychosexual Differentiation

Zucker

2005

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“…Questionnaires completed independently by the parents included Bates' Child Behavior and Attitude Questionnaire and the Child Game Participation Questionnaire, each with masculinity and femininity subscores, validated according to the method of Meyer-Bahlburg et al [18][19][20][21] Two questionnaires administered to the parents were semi-structured and probing in style and included the Gender-Role Assessment Schedule (parent version), validated according to the methods of Meyer-Bahlburg et al and Lish et al, [22][23][24] and a psychosexual-history questionnaire written by the first author, which was not validated but which provided further clarification of the parents' and subjects' responses to the study instruments. Questionnaires administered to subjects included Grellert's structured Childhood Play Activities Questionnaire 22-25 and the psychosexual-history questionnaire.…”

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Discordant Sexual Identity in Some Genetic Males with Cloacal Exstrophy Assigned to Female Sex at Birth

2004

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“…And factor 4, which the researchers decided was not useful for distinguishing between normal and deviant boys, was called "Mother's boy": "he likes to keep his hair neat and clean," "he doesn't mind getting himself dirty or greasy," "he sides with his father when there is a family argument." 64 The expectation had been that normal boys would score higher on factor 2, and effeminate boys would score higher on factors 1, 3, and 4. In the end, the researchers decided that only factors 1, 2, and 3 distinguished between the two groups.…”

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“…John Bates, P. M. Bentler, and Spencer Thompson argued that better instruments would encourage more "systematic study of deviant gender development, such as is seen in the case of extremely effeminate boys." 63 To that end, they developed the Gender Behavior Inventory for Boys.…”

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No Taste for Rough-and-Tumble Play

Adams¹

2013

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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This article explores the role of sport in the regulation of boys' gender nonconformity. More specifically, it looks at the way sport contributes to producing the pronounced anti-effeminacy that pervades North American culture. Sport is a huge conceptual category that captures activities as diverse as NFL football, minor league co-ed softball, and recreational jogging. Sport is something people do, and it is something people watch. It produces intense physical pleasures, yet also pain, leading to, for example, three hundred thousand concussions a year in the United States. 1 Sport is promoted as a health-giving leisure-time activity and as a big-money venture with the power to bolster urban economies and foster national pride. It has its own educational institutions, its own media, its own multinational corporations. It takes up a tremendous amount of cultural space, helping to produce and keep in circulation ideas about human physical potential, about what counts as normality, about the relation of the body to gender, race, class, and nation. For this article, the version of sport that concerns me is the mainstream commonsense ideal of sport as a taken-for-granted feature of masculine childhoods. Analytically, I take up this version of sport as not just a form of physical activity but as an ideological discursive formation that helps sustain narrow normative understandings of gender.In popular and professional discourses about effeminacy or sissyness, boys' feelings about sport (and about gym class) and their actual athletic abilities have been represented as both symptoms of abnormality and possible targets of intervention. The assumption has been that knowing something about a boy's feelings for sports tells us considerably more than that about him. Would we say the same of his feelings for math, for solving spatial puzzles, for playing chess, for

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Measurement of Deviant Gender Development in Boys

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Measurement of Psychosexual Differentiation

Measurement of Psychosexual Differentiation

Discordant Sexual Identity in Some Genetic Males with Cloacal Exstrophy Assigned to Female Sex at Birth

No Taste for Rough-and-Tumble Play

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