Views of Gender in Adolescence

项目摘要（家长资助） 分类是人类认知的一个基本方面，它允许有效的学习，泛化和 通信在整个发展过程中，人类对周围的物体、人和事件进行分类。 拟议的工作审查社会分类，重点是性别问题。性别分类较早 新兴的，但在整个生命周期中有影响力。更广泛的社会性别观念似乎正在发生变化， 然而，这项赠款询问这些变化如何可能或可能不会反映在青少年如何 对性别的分类，他们对性别的信念，以及他们根据性别进行的自我分类。使用一对 纵向研究，包括一项为期5年的年度研究（从上一个资助期开始）和一项为期一个月的 日常经验抽样研究，这项赠款将记录这些结构是如何或不改变 以及这些结构与其社会环境之间的关系。最后，在这个 工作中，我们研究了青少年对性别的信念之间的联系，自我分类与性别， 他们的健康和幸福。参与者包括青少年和成年人谁是性别多样性和cisgender。 这项工作将共同推进理论和实践的主题，从分类和青少年 性别发展，以减少跨性别青年的心理健康差距。

Project Summary (Parent Grant) Categorization is a fundamental aspect of human cognition that allows for efficient learning, generalization, and communication. Throughout development, humans categorize the objects, people, and events around them. The proposed work examines social categorization with a focus on gender. Gender categories are early emerging, yet influential throughout the lifespan. Broader societal ideas about gender appear to be changing, however, and this grant asks how those changes may or may not be reflected in how adolescents are categorizing gender, their beliefs about gender, and their self-categorization by gender. Using a pair of longitudinal studies, including a 5-year annual study (ongoing from the previous grant period) and a month-long daily experience sampling study, this grant will document how these constructs are or are not changing amongst adolescents and the relation between these constructs and their social environments. Finally, in this work, we examine the links between adolescents’ beliefs about gender, self-categorization with gender, and their health and well-being. Participants include adolescents and adults who are gender diverse and cisgender. Together this work will advance theory and practice about topics ranging from categorization and adolescent gender development to reducing mental health disparities in transgender youth.