Study documents ethnic and gender differences in youths' developing gender identity

(Society for Research in Child Development) The extent to which youths feel typical of their gender and the pressure they feel to conform to traditional gender roles are related to adolescents' well-being. Because many gender-related expectations are culturally based, a new longitudinal study examined how French middle school adolescents' feelings about the development of gender identity differed across groups of teens from different ethnicities, cultures, and genders.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news