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Gender Identity
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Definition of 'Gender Identity'A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role. Common names: Gender Identity; Gender Identities; Identity, Gender; Woman's Role; Role, Woman's; Roles, Woman's; Woman's Roles; Women's Role; Role, Women's; Roles, Women's; Women's Roles; Sex Role; Role, Sex; Roles, Sex; Sex Roles; Gender Role; Gender Roles; Roles, Gender; Gender; Men's Role; Role, Men's |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
HIV prevention and primary care for transgender women in a community-based clinic.
30 Aug 2009 
Male-to-female transgender individuals, or transgender women (TW), are at high risk for HIV infection and face multiple barriers to HIV care. Advocates agree that numerous factors need to be addressed concurrently to prevent HIV infection in TW, ... Read more...
30 Aug 2009 Seventy seven college students and 66 middle-aged Mexican women completed an adapted questionnaire of attitudes toward menstrual suppression and the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory. Participants showed a great interest in menstrual ... Read more...
Competition affects food choice in women.
30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine women's food choices after exposure to a threatening upward social comparison in an achievement situation. METHOD: Female university students performed three tasks in the presence of a confederate; for some, the situation was ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Gender Identity'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- The piano teacher: a case study in perversion and sadomasochism.
29 Sep 2009 - [Depression in men: stress, risk factors and symptoms] Sep 2009
- ["...Men are so vulnerable ..." does our medicine do justice to men?] Sep 2009
- HIV prevention and primary care for transgender women in a community-based clinic. 30 Aug 2009
- Attitudes toward menstrual suppression and conformity to feminine norms in young and middle-aged Mexican women. 30 Aug 2009
- Competition affects food choice in women. 30 Aug 2009
- Men and masculinities in forensic psychiatric care: an interview study concerning male nurses' experiences of working with male caregivers and male patients. 30 Aug 2009
- Gender-specific normative perceptions of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies. 30 Aug 2009
- Correlates of condom use among male high school students in Nairobi, Kenya. 30 Aug 2009
- Work preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted: Developmental changes and gender differences during emerging adulthood and parenthood. 30 Aug 2009
- Global women's health: a spotlight on caregiving. 30 Aug 2009
- Sex, immorality, and mental disorders. 16 Aug 2009
- Social likeability, conformity, and body talk: Does fat talk have a normative rival in female body image conversations? 9 Aug 2009
- Struck by lightning or slowly suffocating - gendered trajectories into depression. 9 Aug 2009
- Can gossypol be a hope for transsexual patients (male to female) before sex reassignment surgery? Just for adjusting the body to mind. Aug 2009
- Genetic risk factors for disordered eating in adolescent males and females. 30 Jul 2009
- Australia's national men's health policy: masculinity matters. 30 Jul 2009
- Why do we watch it? 30 Jul 2009
- Longitudinal effects of conflict behaviors on depressive symptoms in young couples. 30 Jul 2009
- Mind your own business! Longitudinal relations between perceived privacy invasion and adolescent-parent conflict. 30 Jul 2009
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Technical information about 'Gender Identity'
Definition: A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.
Descriptor UI: D005783
Alternative terms: Gender Identity; Gender Identities; Identity, Gender; Woman's Role; Role, Woman's; Roles, Woman's; Woman's Roles; Women's Role; Role, Women's; Roles, Women's; Women's Roles; Sex Role; Role, Sex; Roles, Sex; Sex Roles; Gender Role; Gender Roles; Roles, Gender; Gender; Men's Role; Role, Men's; Roles, Men's; Man's Role; Role, Man's;
Tree Number: F01.393.446.250; F01.752.747.385.200; F01.752.747.722.200; F02.739.794.793.200;
History Note: 1991(1975); for GENDER use SEX 1991-2003
Technical Notes: psychological; do not confuse with SEX CHARACTERISTICS (physiological); do not confuse with SEXUAL ORIENTATION see SEX BEHAVIOR: gender identity is knowing that one is male or female; sexual orientation is preferring heterosexual or homosexual behavior; no qualif