title: Clinical utility of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) in the Spanish transsexual and nontranssexual population.
abstract: The aim of the study is to evaluate the usefulness of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; Bem, 1974), an overall measurement of the cultural construct of masculinity and femininity, in the psychological assessment of Spanish transsexuals. Seventy male-to-female transsexuals (MF), 51 female-to-male transsexuals (FM), 77 control men, and 79 control women completed the Spanish version of the BSRI. Statistically significant differences between groups were only found on the femininity scale, on which MF transsexuals and control women scored significantly higher than FM transsexuals and control men. The results indicate that (a) only the femininity scale of the BSRI appears to be useful today for evaluating differences in the sex-role identification in Spanish controls and transsexuals; and (b) MF and FM transsexuals score as a function of their gender identity instead of their anatomical sex on the BSRI femininity scale.
authors.affiliation: Institute Clinic of Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain. esgomez@clinic.ub.es
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gómez-Gil
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cañizares
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillamón
authors.forename: Giuseppina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rametti
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Esteva
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salamero-Baró
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D013030:Spain; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology*