Particularities of gender-role identity of persons with non-traditional sexual orientation

1987

Abstract

At the present time, despite decriminalization and depathologization of homosexuality, persons with non-traditional sexual orientation remain in the risk group for psychic and psychological ill-being. However, there are virtually no studies devoted to research of homosexuality within the framework of modern social situation. The principal aim of the contribution is to identify the peculiarities of gender-role identity of persons with non-traditional sexual orientation. It is shown that homosexuals encounter difficulties in identifying the characteristic features of gender (their evaluations have a subjective and ambivalent nature). Homosexuals evaluate the female sex as dominating, having to a great extent masculine qualities; the image of a man is included into a system of negative conceptual connections. The achieved results show that homosexuals differ from heterosexuals in a number of characteristics of conceptual perception of gender.

General Information

Keywords: homosexuality, gender-role identity, gender perception

Journal rubric: Psychology of Deviant and Criminal Behavior

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Dozortseva E.G., Dvoryanchikov N.V., Demidova L.Y., Simonenkova M.B. Particularities of gender-role identity of persons with non-traditional sexual orientation [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologiya i pravo = Psychology and Law, 2011. Vol. 1, no. 4 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Elena G. Dozortseva, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor, Department of Legal Psychology and Law, Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Child and Adolescent Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation,Member of the editorial board of the scientific journal “Psychology and Law” member of the editorial board of the scientific journal “Psychological Science and Education”, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1309-0485, e-mail: edozortseva@mail.ru

Nikolay V. Dvoryanchikov, PhD in Psychology, Docent, Dean, Faculty of Legal and Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-5469, e-mail: dvorian@gmail.com

Liubov Y. Demidova, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Forensic Sexology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4357-1105, e-mail: lyubov.demidova@gmail.com

M. B. Simonenkova, PhD in Psychology, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: price@soyuz-k.com

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