The Sense of Psychological Gender of Secondary School Students
The Sense of Psychological Gender of Secondary School Students

Summary/Abstract: Psychological gender is one of the crucial determinants of human behaviour, significantly linked to socio-cultural changes. Its conformity or nonconformity with biological sex plays an essential role in the process of identity development and correct social adaptation of adolescents. The study aimed to determine the main types of psychological gender of adolescents in late adolescence. The research group consisted of a total of 847 secondary school students. Kuczyńska’s IPP Psychological Gender Inventory was used. Research questions were asked about the main types of psychological gender in the group of respondents in general and because of the influence of sociodemographic variables such as gender, age, family structure and economic status, and type of post-primary school. The results of the study showed that the dominant psychological gender type of the adolescents surveyed is the androgynous type. Within the adopted sociodemographic variables, variables such as family economic status and type of secondary school proved to be its moderators. It was found that the androgynous type of psychological gender is statistically significantly more often characterized by adolescents from families with good and excellent financial situations and studying in general secondary schools. In addition, it was noted that boys, compared to girls, experience a more significant crisis in psychological gender identification consistent with biological sex.

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