Sex-Typed Body Movements as a Function of Severity of Gender Disturbance in Boys

Psychosexual Disorders in Children and Adolescents

“…In contrast, demonstration of discriminant validity regarding many of the putative characteristics of children, mainly boys, with gender identity disorder has been fairly straightforward. Structured parent interviews regarding specific sex-typed behaviours (Green, 1987;Roberts, Green, Williams & Goodman, 1987), parent-report on sex-typed play and behaviour questionniares Bates, Bentler & Thompson, 1973;Green, 1976Green, , 1987Zucker, Bradley, Corter, Doering »& Finegan, 1980;Zucker, Bradley, Doering & Lozinski, 1985), measurement of overt (Doering, Zucker, Bradley & Maclntyre, 1989;Green, Fuller, Rutley & Hendler, 1972;Rekers & Yates, 1976; and covert (Green & Fuller, 1973;Zucker, Doering, Bradley, Alon & Lozinski, 1984) sex-typed play in standardized situations, observation of sex-typed motoric behaviour (Bates, Bentler & Thompson, 1979;Green, Neuberg & Finch, 1983), assessment of gender constancy development (Zucker et ai, 1988), and sextyped indices on projective tests, including the Draw-a-Person (Green, Fuller & Rutley, 1972;Skilbcck, Bates & Bentler, 1975;Zucker, Finegan, Doering & Bradley, 1983), the IT Scale for Ghildren (Green et ai , 1972), and the Rorschach (Zucker, Lozinski, Bradley & Doering, 1992) have all yielded differences between gender-referred probands and comparison groups, which have included sibling, psychiatric and normal controls (see also Rekers & Morey, 1989a, 1989bRekers, Rosen & Morey, 1990).…”