Gender differences in adolescent interpersonal identity formation

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Thorbecke ◽  
Harold D. Grotevant
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Identity Formation

Styling the Revolution

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 933-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Lee
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
The People ◽  
And Gender

This article explores the changes to urban political culture in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1998 to the present. By tracing the contributions of youth activists, and middle-class university students in particular, to the production of the street as a political and public space, the author demonstrates to what extent the democratized post-Suharto era naturalizes the place of youth in nationalist politics. Central to this inquiry of youth identity formation is the elision of class and gender as analytical categories. Student movements in 1998 and after have relied on a specific masculine style that draws on both the authenticity of nationalist historical narratives and the street as the domain of the People, and in the process masks potentially contentious class and gender differences among progressive activists.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MODERN ADOLESCENTS GENDER IDENTITY FORMATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Kikinezhdi O.M. ◽  
Chip R.S.
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Gender Perceptions ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Features

Purpose. The aim of the article is to highlight the results of theoretical analysis and empirical study of the peculiarities of gender perceptions, identification of gender characteristics in the structure of the Self-image of adolescent girls and boys. The state of development of the researched problem is clarified, the content of the basic concepts is revealed.Methods. The theoretical methods are used such as analysis, comparison, generalization, systematization of scientific statements and facts; empirical such as observation, conversation, testing for in-depth and holistic study of the psychological features of the adolescents gender identity formation; a psychological and pedagogical experiment in the form of ascertaining is conducted. To study gender characteristics in the structure of the Self-image of two sexual samples, the method “Who am I?” devised by M. Kun -T. McPartland has been used.Results. The results of the empirical study showed that most of adolescents of both sexes focus on universal values, social roles, moral qualities, communicative the Self, active the Self and personal the Self, which is the evidence of their being in a qualitatively different social development situation, restructuring interpersonal relationships with peers and adults within a leading activity and rethinking oneself in a new adult role. Only a third of the respondents pointed out the peculiarities of appearance as an element of physical the Self-image. Gender differences in the critical self-assessment and identification "We" are detected.Conclusions. Gender differences in the perceptions of adolescents about their own the Self-image are revealed. It is studied that girls have higher rates than boys in such categories as: identification with humanity, personal identification, social roles, age identification, appearance, moral qualities, personal negative qualities, feminine qualities, communicative the Self, perspective the Self, active the Self. The sample of boys is dominated by gender identification, personal the Self, personal positive qualities, masculine qualities, national and civic identification.Key words: gender perceptions, gender identification, gender-role of the Self-image, adolescence, traditional and egalitarian values, psychological support. Метою статті є висвітлення результатів теоретичного аналізу та емпіричного дослідження особливостей ґендерних уявлень, виявлення гендерних характеристик у структурі образу Я дівчат та хлопців старшого підліткового віку. З’ясовано стан розробленості досліджуваної проблеми, розкрито зміст основних понять. Використано теоретичні методи: аналіз, порівняння, узагальнення, систематизація наукових поло-жень та фактів;емпіричні – спостереження, бесіда, тестування для поглибленого та цілісного вивчення психологічних особливостей становлення ґендерної ідентичності старших підлітків; проведено психолого-педагогічний експеримент у формі констатувального. Для дослідження ґендерних характеристик у структурі образу Я двох статевих вибірок використано методику «Хто Я?» (М. Кун –Т. Макпартленд).Результати емпіричного дослідження показали, що більшість старших підлітків обох статей орієнтується на загальнолюдські цінності, соціальні ролі, моральні якості, комунікативне Я, діяльнісне Я та персональне Я, що є свідченням їхнього перебування у якісно іншій соціальній ситуації розвитку, перебудови міжособистісних стосунків з однолітками та дорослими у межах провідного виду діяль-ності та переосмислення себе у новій дорослій ролі. На особливості зовнішнього вигляду як елементу фізичного образу Я вказала лише третина досліджуваних. Виявлено статеві відмінності у критичному самоставленні та ідентифікаційному «Ми». Висновки. Виявлено ґендерні відмінності в уявленнях старших підлітків про власний образ Я. Досліджено, що у дівчат порівняно з хлопцями вищі показники щодо таких категорій, як-от: ідентифікація з людством, особистісна ідентифікація, соціальні ролі, вікова ідентифікація, особливості зовнішнього вигляду, моральні якості, особистісні негативні якості, фемінні якості, комунікативне Я, перспективне Я, діяльнісне Я. У вибірці хлопців переважає статева ідентифікація, персональне Я, особистісні позитивні якості, маскулінні якості, національно-громадянська ідентифікація. Ключові слова: ґендерні уявлення, ґендерна ідентифікація, статеворольовий образ Я, старший підлітковий вік, традиційні та еґалітарні цінності, психологічний супровід.

scholarly journals Constructing Masculinity in Women’s Retailers: An Analysis of the Effect of Gendered Market Segmentation on Consumer Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Eric Filice ◽  
Elena Neiterman ◽  
Samantha B. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Participatory Observation

While gender-based differences in consumer behavior have been previously investigated within the context of gender-neutral or unisex retailers, men’s behavior in women’s retailers remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, most studies frame the retail environment as a passive platform through which essential gender differences yield setting-specific bifurcated behavior, and do not address the role the commercial establishment and men’s shopping habits play in gender identity formation and maintenance. To address this gap, we analyzed men’s behavior in women’s retailers using interactionist and social constructionist theories of sex/gender. Data were collected through non-participatory observation at a series of large, enclosed shopping malls in South-Western Ontario, Canada and analyzed thematically. We found that men tend to actively avoid women’s retailers or commercial spaces that connote femininity, while those who enter said spaces display passivity, aloofness, or reticence. We suggest the dominant cultural milieu that constitute hegemonic masculinity— disaffiliation with femininity, an accentuation of heterosexuality, and a prioritization of homosocial engagement—nform the dialectical relationship between individual and institutional gender practice that manifests through consumption.

scholarly journals The Politics of Disharmony in Management of Gender Differences

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajeet N Mathur ◽  
Anja Salmi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Representation Of Women

Harmonious inter-generational continuities require the male and the female of the species to engage with each other through interdependence. The chronic under-representation of women in politics everywhere, long after women secured justiciable equal rights in many democracies, intrigues scholars. Political participation varies by ethnicity, age, religion, and culture but that does not account for gender. Patriarchy, discrimination, domination, and oppression are historically castigated but there can also be other reasons. This study explains that underrepresentation of women persists because motives and power-bases to improve their political participation are not easily mobilized due to psychological differences in how men and women acquire and exercise political influence. Strategies suiting intra-group mobilization of women for securing greater inter-group influence are different from those that suit men. Thus, what appear as ‘deficits’ of political skills inhibiting acquisition of political power by women are dissolvable with designed interventions. Indeed, men may appear challenged were they to compete with strategies more suited to women. Gendered identities affect processes of inclusion, exclusion, representation, and participation of women in politics in various ways. The dynamics of disharmony in management of gender differences is traceable to different repertoires of response choices with which men and women build relationships and form groups. This study analyses gender differences in coping with anxieties and defending against anxieties and identifies sets of causal triggers that produce disharmony as outcomes arising in the form of deprivations and taboos during the process of growth and identity formation. Coping responses to anxieties are substituted and complemented by primitive and developed defences traceable to the way men and women are cared for as babies, infants, children, and adolescence through to adulthood. The repertoire of coping responses as well as primitive and developed defences evolves differently for men and women. This is immutable in some respects, modifiable in others, through practices embedded in psychosocial aspects of gender identities, child-rearing practices, and culture. The two horns of the women�s dilemma pressurize them either into behaving like men or evolving creative and innovative strategies. The latter is challenging since the required talent, planning, organization, and mobilization cannot be wished into existence by rational or emotional pleas for equal representation. The major findings of the study are follows: Human dignity, equal freedom, social cohesion, and global harmony, as desirable goals, are beyond reach if social justice is sought only through demands, disputes, claims, and entitlements over substantive and procedural equality of rights. The pursuit of equality as a policy requires to be underpinned with deeper analysis of the sources of conscious and unconscious human behaviour (of individuals and groups) that produce inequitable outcomes. The restoration of gender balance in the political arena can have the greatest and most lasting impact on sustainable ways to design and govern world affairs in the pursuit of harmony. This paper urges women and men to experiment with designing strategies that suit women and test whether such strategies redress the political under-representation of women.

122 HELUMA-registry: 10-year analysis of gender differences and treatment implementation in CHF

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
C ZUGCK ◽  
A FLUEGEL ◽  
L FRANKENSTEIN ◽  
M NELLES ◽  
M HAASS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Treatment Implementation
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