Clinical utility of the bem sex role inventory (BSRI) in the Spanish transsexual and nontranssexual population

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 304-309

  Gómez Gil, Esther ^a   Gómez, Angel ^b   Caizares, Silvia ^a   Guillamón, Antonio ^b   Rametti, Giuseppina ^a   Esteva, Isabel ^c   Vázquez, Alexandra ^b   Salamero Baró, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84859981932     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2011.650302     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Auster, C. J., & Ohm, S. C. (2000).Masculinity and femininity in contemporary American society: A reevaluation using the Bem Sex-Role Inventory. Sex Roles, 43, 499-528. (Pubitemid 33229471)
3. Bem, S. L. (1974). The measurement of psychological androgyny. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 155-162.
4. Butcher, J. N., Dahlstrom, W. G., Graham, J. R., Tellegen, A., & Kaemmer, B. (1989). MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2: Manual for administration and scoring. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
5. Caron, G. R.,& Archer, R. P. (1997). MMPI and Rorschach characteristics of individuals approved for gender reassignment surgery. Assessment, 4, 229-241. (Pubitemid 127664000)
6. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
7. Cohen-Kettenis, P. T., & van Goozen, S. H. M. (1997). Sex reassignment of adolescent transsexuals: A follow-up study. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 263-271. (Pubitemid 27049576)
8. Cole, C. M., O'Boyle, M., Emory, L. E., & Meyer,W. J. (1997). Comorbidity of gender dysphoria and other major psychiatric diagnoses. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 26, 13-26. (Pubitemid 27066542)
9. Deogracias, J. J., Johnson, L. L., Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F. L., Kessler, S. J., Schober, J. M., & Zucker, K. J. (2007). The Gender Identity/Gender Dysphoria Questionnaire for Adolescents and Adults. Journal of Sex Research, 44, 370-379.
10. Fernández, J. (1983). Nuevas perspectivas en la medida de la masculinidad y feminidad [New perspectives in the measurement of masculinity and femininity]. Madrid, Spain: Editorial de la Universidad Complutense.
11. Fernández, J., Páez, D., & González, J. L. (2005). Independent and interdependent self-construals and socio-cultural factors in 29 nations. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 18, 35-63.
12. Fernández, J., Quiroga, M. A., del Olmo, I., & Rodríguez, A. (2007). Escalas de masculinidad y feminidad: Estado actual de la cuestión [Masculinity and femininity scales: Current state of the art]. Psicothema, 19, 357-365.
13. Fleming, M. Z., Jenkins, S. R., & Bugarin, C. (1980). Questioning current definitions of gender identity: Implications of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory for transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 9, 13-26. (Pubitemid 11192909)
14. Fleming, M. Z., MacGowan, B. R., & Salt, P. (1984). Female-to-male transsexualism and sex roles: Self and spouse ratings on the PAQ. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 13, 51-57. (Pubitemid 14170121)
15. Gómez-Gil, E., & Esteva de Antonio, I. (2006). Ser transexual [Being transsexual]. Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Glosa.
16. Gómez-Gil, E., Trilla, A., Salamero, M., Godás, T., & Valdés,M. (2009). Sociodemographic, clinical, and psychiatric characteristics of transsexuals from Spain. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38, 378-392.
17. Gómez-Gil, E., Vidal-Hagemeijer, A., & Salamero, M. (2008). MMPI-2 characteristics of transsexuals requesting sex reassignment comparison of patients in pre-hormonal and pre-surgical phases. Journal of Personality Assessment, 90, 368-374. (Pubitemid 351918503)
18. Greenberg, R. P., & Laurence, L. (1981). A comparison of the MMPI results for psychiatric patients and male applicants for transsexual surgery. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 169, 320-323. (Pubitemid 11107632)
19. Hathaway, S. R., & McKinley, J. C. (1940). A multiphasic personality schedule (Minnesota): I. Construction of the schedule. Journal of Psychology, 10, 249-254.
20. Herman-Jeglinska, A., Grabowska, A., & Dulko, S. (2002). Masculinity, femininity, and transsexualism. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 527-534. (Pubitemid 38457381)
21. Hines, M. (2002). Sexual differentiation of the human brain and behavior. In D. W. Pfaff, A. P. Arnold, A. M. Etgen, S. E. Fahrbach, & R. T. Rubin (Eds.), Hormones, brain and behavior (Vol. 4, pp. 425-462). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Academic Press.
22. Hunt, D. D., Carr, J. E., & Hampson, J. L. (1981). Cognitive correlates of biologic sex and gender identity in transsexualism. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 10, 65-77. (Pubitemid 11131447)
23. Leavitt, F., & Berger J. C. (1990). Clinical patterns among male transsexual candidates with erotic interest in males. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 19, 491-505. (Pubitemid 20355130)
24. Lefkowitz, E. S., & Zeldow, P. B. (2006). Masculinity and femininity predict optimal mental health: A belated test of the androgyny hypothesis. Journal of Personality Assessment, 87, 95-101. (Pubitemid 44289974)
25. Lippa, R. A. (2001). Gender-related traits in transsexuals and nontranssexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 30, 603-614. (Pubitemid 39592007)
26. Lubinski, D., Tellegen, A., & Butcher, J. N. (1981). The relationship between androgyny and subjective indicators of emotional well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 722-730.
27. Meyer,W., III, Bockting,W. O., Cohen-Kettenis, P., Coleman, E., DiCeglie, D., Devor, H., Wheeler, C. C. (2001). The Harry Benjamin Gender Dysphoria Association's Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders, Sixth Version. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 13, 1-30.
28. Miach, P. P., Berah, E. F., Butcher J. N., & Rouse, S. (2000). Utility of the MMPI-2 in assessing gender dysphoric patients. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 268-279.
29. Michel, A., Ansseau, M., Legros, J. J., Pitchot, W., Cornet, J. P., & Mormont, C. (2002). Comparisons of two groups of sex-change applicants based on the MMPI. Psychological Reports, 91, 233-240.
30. Moya, M., Poeschl, G., Glick, P., Páez, D., & Fernández-Sedano, I. (2005). Sexisme, masculinité-feminité at facteurs culturels [Sexism, masculinityfemininity and cultural factor]. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 18, 141-167.
31. Richter-Appelt, H., Discher, C., & Gedrose, B. (2005). Gender identity and recalled gender related childhood play-behaviour in adult individuals with different forms of intersexuality. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 63, 241-256.
32. Skrapec, C., & MacKenzie, K. R. (1981). Psychological self-perception in male transsexuals, homosexuals, and heterosexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 10, 357-370. (Pubitemid 12233117)
33. Spence, J. T. (1984). Gender identity and its implications for the concepts of masculinity and femininity. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 32, 59-95.
34. Spence, J. T., & Helmreich, R. L. (1978). Masculinity and femininity: Their psychological dimensions, correlates and antecedents. Austin: University of Texas Press.
35. Spence, J. T., Helmreich, R. L., & Stapp, J. (1974). The personal attributes questionnaire: A measure of sex role stereotypes and masculinity-femininity. JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 4, 1-42.
36. Twenge, J. M. (1999). The multifactorial approach and the organization of gender-related attributes. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 23, 485-502.
37. Wizemann, T. (2001). Exploring the biological contributions to human health: Does sex matter? Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
38. World Health Organization. (1993). International classification of diseases: Diagnostic criteria for research (10th ed.). Geneva, Switzerland: Author.