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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Psychosexual Development > Gender Identity
Psychological Phenomena > Psychological Theory > Psychoanalytic Theory > Psychosexual Development > Gender Identity
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Identification, Psychological > Gender Identity
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Defense Mechanisms > Identification, Psychological > Gender Identity

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Gender Identity  

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Definition

  • A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role. Socially-constructed identity of male or female.

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