Objective: To have an understanding of characteristics and parenting styles among people with gender dysphoria and explore the potential relationships between the two factors.
Methods: This study recruited the clinic inpatients with gender dysphoria, collected their demographic information, and evaluated parenting style and personality characteristics by using the scales of Egma Minnen av Barndoms Uppforstran (EMBU) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), respectively. The factor scores of EMBU and MMPI among people with gender dysphoria were compared with the national normative scores and their scores of MMPI and EMBU were in comparison by different gender. The Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were conducted to examine the relationships between parenting styles and personality characteristics.
Results: The scores of individuals with gender dysphoria in multiple subscales of MMPI were significantly higher than the national normative scores, but the average T scores, except the subscale of masculinity-femininity, were not within the clinical diagnostic range. Individuals with gender dysphoria of different gender had significant differences in multiple subscales of MMPI. The scores of individuals with gender dysphoria in EMBU were significantly higher than the national normative scores. Individuals with gender dysphoria of different genders had significant differences in some subscales of EMBU. The scores of EMBU were correlated with the scores of MMPI. The scores of some subscales in MMPI could explain the changes of the scores of some subscales in EMBU.
Conclusions: In general, pathological changes among the people with gender dysphoria in this study are not shown in their personality characteristics. Parents of people with gender dysphoria may show more negative parenting styles. There is a correlation between parenting style and personality characteristics in people with gender dysphoria.
ZHANG Fei
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ZHANG Jiwen
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LI Xiaoping
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PAN Lingyi
. A Study on the Correlation Between Parenting Style and Personality Characteristics in Individuals With Gender Dysphoria[J]. Psychological Communications, 2022
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.222007
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