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16138874
TITLE
Psychological masculinity-femininity via the gender diagnosticity approach: heritability and consistency across ages and populations.
ABSTRACT
Several aspects of the Gender Diagnosticity (GD) approach of Lippa (1995) to measuring the psychological trait of masculinity-femininity within sexes were explored in four samples ranging from 363 to 5,859 individuals, including Swedish and Australian adults, U.S. elderly, and Australian adolescents. Two ways of deriving GD scales yielded highly similar results. Moderate stability of individual differences was found across ages 12 to 16 among adolescents, but substantial shifts over age occurred in relationships with Eysenck scales. Considerable generality of GD scales was obtained across languages and populations. Substantial heritabilities (about 40%) and minimal effects of shared family environments suggest that within-sex masculinity-femininity behaves as a fairly typical personality trait. Cross-age continuity appeared mainly to reflect the influence of the genes.
DATE PUBLISHED
2005 Oct
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2005/09/06 09:00
medline 2006/01/13 09:00
entrez 2005/09/06 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Loehlin JC Loehlin John C JC University of Texas at Austin, Psychology Department, 78712, USA. loehlin@psy.utexas.edu
Jönsson EG Jönsson Erik G EG
Gustavsson JP Gustavsson J Petter JP
Stallings MC Stallings Michael C MC
Gillespie NA Gillespie Nathan A NA
Wright MJ Wright Margaret J MJ
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 73
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: Journal of personality
ISOABBREVIATION: J Pers
YEAR: 2005
MONTH: Oct
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0022-3506
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Pers
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0022-3506
NLMUNIQUEID: 2985194R
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Gender Identity
Humans
Male
Personality Disorders diagnosis
Population Surveillance methods
Psychology methods
Sex Factors methods
Twins psychology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's