Sex-typed responses in the Rorschach protocols of children with gender identity disorder.
A coding system was developed to measure sex-typed responses in the Rorschach protocols of children with gender identity disorder (n = 79). Their responses were compared to that of sibling (n = 25), psychiatric (n = 26), and normal (n = 28) controls. Results show that children with gender identity disorder gave significantly more cross-sex responses than same-sex responses, whereas the psychiatric and normal controls gave significantly more same-sex responses than cross-sex responses. The siblings did not differ in the number of same-sex and cross-sex responses. Results are discussed with regard to various assessment issues in the study of children with gender identity disorder.
Zucker
K J
KJ
Child and Family Studies Centre, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lozinski
J A
JA
Bradley
S J
SJ
Doering
R W
RW
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology