title: Emotional functions in transsexuals after the first step in physical transformation.
abstract: Transsexuals have to face multiple medical, social and bureaucratic problems. These problems are not only encountered before the transformation, but also during and after medical procedures. In the search for improvement of transsexual individuals' quality of life during therapy, it seems desirable to supplement hormonal treatments with psychological explorations. This study was conducted with the aim of defining emotional conditions and included 28 transsexual female-to-male (F/M) patients and two gender-divided control groups (males and females) of similar age. The following psychometric scales were used: CECS (Courtauld Emotional Control Scale constructed by M. Watson and S. Greer in the Polish Adaptation by Z. Juczyński), ISCL (the Polish Adaptation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults by T. Sosnowski), and GSES (the Polish Adaptation of the R. Schwarzer, M. Jerusalem Generalized Self-Efficacy Scaleby Z. Juczyński and K. Wrześniewski). Transsexual F/M patients appeared very similar to males in the male control group in terms of their subjective selfefficacy and state-trait anxiety, while their subjective belief of anxiety and fear control was more comparable to that of the female controls. It was also found to be statistically significantly lower than in the male controls.
authors.forename: Izabela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Warmuz-Stangierska
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Diseases, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland. adamopol@onet.eu.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stangierski
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ziemnicka
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gołąb
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zdanowska
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lodyga
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Komarowska
authors.forename: Maria Danuta
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Głowacka
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruchała
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery