The childhood and family dynamics of transvestites
| Autor: | Richard L. Schott |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Gender dysphoria medicine.medical_specialty Sample (statistics) Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Fetishism Psychiatric medicine Humans Sibling Relations Family Father-Child Relations Maternal Behavior General Psychology Aged Family Characteristics Public health Gender Identity Middle Aged medicine.disease Mother-Child Relations Transvestism Audience measurement Covert Object relations theory Sexual orientation Female Birth Order Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Sexual Behavior. 24:309-327 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2800 0004-0002 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf01541602 |
| Popis: | This article reports a survey of childhood experiences and family dynamics reported by a sample of 85 cross-dressing males drawn from the readership of a magazine for transvestites. The sample had a higher percentage of only children and eldest children compared to a national sample and also a much closer relationship with their mothers than with their fathers. Their identification as nuclear or marginal transvestites or transsexuals is related to the quality of the reported relationship with the mother, to the factors they identify as associated with their cross-dressing, and to their sexual orientation. Covert cross-dressers account for over three fourths of the subjects, but those who were overt (their cross-dressing openly encouraged by female family members) show significantly different patterns and distributions on several variables. A constellation of family and parental relationships is proposed--drawn in part from the insights of object relations and family systems theory--which may contribute to the development of transvestism. |
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