Gender Identity and Adjustment in Middle Childhood

By P. Carver, J. Yunger, D. G. Perry. 2003

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Teaching Children to Confront Peers’ Sexist Remarks: Implications for Theories of Gender Development and Educational Practice (2009, background): “Consistent with this generalization, Perry and colleagues reported that children who feel atypical of their gender and pressured to conform to gender norms show high rates of psychological distress, including low self-esteem and low social competence and acceptance ( Carver et al. 2003; Egan and Pe”
Doing Gender for Different Reasons: Why Gender Conformity Positively and Negatively Predicts Self-Esteem 1 (2010, background): “On the one hand, researchers have found evidence that investment in gender ideals is associated with negative evaluations of the self when self-esteem is informed by external sources (i.e., the motivation for others’ approval; Carver et al., 2003; Egan & Perry, 2001; Sanchez & Crocker, 2005; Sanchez”
Adolescent Life Satisfaction and Personality Characteristics: Investigating Relationships Using a Five Factor Model (2015, background): “suggest consistency between sex and expression of stereotypical gender-specific traits may affect well-being for adolescent girls (Carver et al. 2003; Kroger 2004).”
Self-Perceived Gender Typicality, Gender-Typed Attributes, and Gender Stereotype Endorsement in Elementary-School-Aged Children (2012, unknown): “For example, cultural differences have been observed in children’s judgments of the acceptability of cross-gender-typed behavior (Lobel, Gruber, Govrin, & Mashraki-Pedhatzur, 2001), and gender typicality may be more influential when pressure to conform to gender norms is high (Carver et al., 2003; E”
How Investment in Gender Ideals Affects Well-Being: The Role of External Contingencies of Self-Worth (2005, methodology): “Although previous research has established the link between investment in gender ideals and poor psychological well-being (Egan & Perry, 2001; Carver et al., 2003), to our knowledge no research has established the psychological mechanisms by which investment is problematic.”
Gender-nonconforming lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth: school victimization and young adult psychosocial adjustment. (2010, background): “Gender nonconformity is just one of the individual-level characteristics that previous research has linked to poor psychosocial adjustment and suicidality in adolescence (Carver et al., 2003; Morrow, 2004; Yunger et al., 2004) and adulthood (Sandfort, Melendez, & Diaz, 2007; Skidmore, Linsenmeier, &”