Psychological Androgyny and Gender Dysphoria

Explanations Of Psychological Androgyny

Androgynous individuals

• Sandra Bem argues that traditional views on gender forces children to choose between one or the other gender roles.
• Goes on to say that being androgynous and choosing traits from both gender roles, to suit the individual, would be far more advantagous.
• Being androgynous woyuld lead to greater flexabiliy and and psychological adjustment.
• Flaherty and Dusek found that androgynous individuals tend to be more adpative to situations and have a greater slef-esteem and sense of emotional well-being.

Commetary

Androgynous individuals

• Bem conducted a range of studies on adrogynous people to show the link between androgyny adn flexability.
• Found that masculine and androgynous females were far less likely to conform than feminine females.
• Found androgynous and feminine females acted more warmly towardsd a baby and another student with personal problems.
• Discovered that males were more constrained by gender…