Sex-typed play in gender-disturbed children: A comparison to sibling and psychiatric controls
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Vol. 11 (4) , 309-321
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01541592
Abstract
Gender-disturbed children (n = 14) were compared to their preadolescent siblings (n = 16) and psychiatric controls (n = 13) on a sex-typed free-play task previously shown to differentiate gender-disturbed boys from normal boys. On three separate trials totaling 20 minutes, the gender-disturbed children played for a significantly longer period of time with cross-sex toys and for a significantly shorter period of time with same-sex toys than did the two control groups. The gender-disturbed children also showed greater trial-to-trial consistency in their play preferences than the other two groups. The utility of this task in the assessment of childhood gender disturbance is discussed. In addition, the results are discussed in relation to a number of perspectives regarding both typical and atypical gender identity development in childhood.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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