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Psychological Phenomena > Psychological Theory > Psychoanalytic Theory > Psychosexual Development > Gender Identity
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Psychosexual Development > Gender Identity
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Identification, Psychological > Gender Identity
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Defense Mechanisms > Identification, Psychological > Gender Identity

Preferred term

Gender Identity  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Gender

Note

  • psychological; do not confuse with SEX CHARACTERISTICS (physiological); do not confuse with SEXUAL ORIENTATION see SEX BEHAVIOR: gender identity is knowing that one is male or female; sexual orientation is preferring heterosexual or homosexual behavior

Scope note

  • A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.

History note

  • 1991(1975); for GENDER use SEX 1991-2003

In other languages

  • sukupuoli-identiteetti

    Finnish

  • seksuaali-identiteetti
  • seksuaalinen identiteetti
  • sukupuolirooli
  • sukupuoliroolit
  • Könsidentitet

    Swedish

  • Genus
  • Genusidentitet
  • Kvinnors roll
  • Könsroller
  • Mäns roll

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005783

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