Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gender Dysphoria
- Psychosocial
- Mental Illness
Anmerkungen:
- linked to mental illness which is linked to childhood trauma or maladaptive upbringing.
- Coates (1991)
Anmerkungen:
- Case Study - boy with GID.
Defensive reaction to mothers depression following an abortion.
child was 3 - sensitive to gender issues.
May have lead to a cross-gender fantasy to resolve anxiety
- AO2/IDA
- Coates (1997)
Anmerkungen:
- 435 ppt with gender dysphoria
range of conditions no greater than general population - so suggests unrelated to trauma/pathological families.
- Reliability
Anmerkungen:
- A more valid study discounts Coates (1991) case study - more ppt. and more empirical measures (using DSM diagnosis).
- Case Studies
Anmerkungen:
- Abonrmal individuals so not applicable beyond findings (low population validity)
Researcher-ppt. relationships = bais
ethics
- Socially senstive
Anmerkungen:
- Grouping GID and other psychiatric conditions could be fatalistic for people experiencing GID (self-fulfilling prophesy)
Reductionist - no inclusion of biology - blames parents/child
- Mother-son relationships
- Stoller (1975)
Anmerkungen:
- GID results from distorted parental attitudes.
Clinical interviews - individuals with GID displayed overly-close mother-son relationships.
Greater female identification and confused identity.
- AO2/IDA
- Zucker (1996)
Anmerkungen:
- 115 male with gender identity issues and also their mothers.
Those diagnosed with GID - 64% diagnosed with separation anxiety disorder also.
just 38% with sub-clinical symptoms.
Suggests mother-son attachment is a factor
- Alpha-biased
Anmerkungen:
- Only MtF explained, FtM discounted
- Reductionist
Anmerkungen:
- Only MtF not FtM. Can not completely rely on mother-son relationship, as only 64%.
- Biological