The influence of gender on the Self-Perception of disturbed children

Lavitt, Melissa

doi:10.1007/bf00755862

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“…In fact, an examination of the mean scores on the various subscales indicates that the children in this sample generally report moderate to high levels of self-perceived competency in the various areas of functioning. This finding is discussed in previous research (Lavitt, 1992) and will be not be reviewed here.…”

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“…Specifically, it was found that the various domains of functioning for which a child assesses competency were highly intercorrelated for disturbed girls, but were likely to be assessed independently by boys (Lavitt, 1992). Unlike boys, girls found it difficult to acknowledge the simultaneous presence of strengths and weaknesses.…”

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“…A review of the research reveals that the relationship between self-esteem and psychological symptoms is not well understood. For example, some research indicates that children's self-judgments are lowered as a result of emotional or behavioral disturbance while other findings indicate the opposite (i.e., children with psychological problems overestimate their competency; Zimet & Farley, 1987;Lavitt, 1992). Furthermore, there is some evidence that gender is an important mediating variable in explaining these mixed results (Forster, 1984).…”

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Developmental changes in self-perception: The role of gender in a preadolescent clinical population

Lavitt¹

1996

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Research indicates that gender and psychopathology are interrelated and that the nature of this relationship changes over the course of development. Rates of incidence for psychological distress reflect both gender and age differences. Furthermore, the expression of emotional problems is also related to gender. Some symptom patterns, for example, are more likely experienced by females than males. This study examines how psychological disturbance, operationalized as magnitude of symptomatology, interacts with development, or chronological age, in order to predict a child's self-perception. Forty-eight children involved in psychotherapy and their mothers were sampled for this research. It was found that for girls and not boys self-perception diminished with age. Results were interpreted in light of recent feminist theory on female development.Clinicians have long observed that the developmental process varies according to gender. Furthermore, the ease with which one negotiates psychological tasks through the life cycle, and the amount of stress experienced during this process also appears to vary for boys and girls, men and women. Research with clinical samples confirms that gender plays a significant role in the referral rates for treatment, and in the prevalence of emotional and behavioral symptoms (