Title

Developmental Changes in Self-Perception: The Role of Gender in a Preadolescent Clinical Population

Publication Date

12-1-1996

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Research indicates that gender and psychopathology are interrelated and that the nature of this relationship changes over the course of development. Rates of incidence for psychological distress reflect both gender and age differences. Furthermore, the expression of emotional problems is also related to gender. Some symptom patterns, for example, are more likely experienced by females than males. This study examines how psychological disturbance, operationalized as magnitude of symptomatology, interacts with development, or chronological age, in order to predict a child's self-perception. Forty-eight children involved in psychotherapy and their mothers were sampled for this research. It was found that for girls and not boys self-perception diminished with age. Results were interpreted in light of recent feminist theory on female development.

Publication Title

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volume

13

Issue

6

First Page

495

Last Page

513

DOI

10.1007/BF01874303

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