TY - JOUR
T1 - The Gender Self-Report
T2 - A Multidimensional Gender Characterization Tool for Gender-Diverse and Cisgender Youth and Adults
AU - Strang, John F.
AU - Wallace, Gregory L.
AU - Michaelson, Jacob J.
AU - Fischbach, Abigail L.
AU - Thomas, Taylor R.
AU - Jack, Allison
AU - Shen, Jerry
AU - Chen, Diane
AU - Freeman, Andrew
AU - Knauss, Megan
AU - Corbett, Blythe A.
AU - Kenworthy, Lauren
AU - Tishelman, Amy C.
AU - Willing, Laura
AU - McQuaid, Goldie A.
AU - Nelson, Eric E.
AU - Toomey, Russell B.
AU - McGuire, Jenifer K.
AU - Fish, Jessica N.
AU - Leibowitz, Scott Farrell
AU - Nahata, Leena
AU - Anthony, Laura G.
AU - Slesaransky-Poe, Graciela
AU - D’Angelo, Lawrence
AU - Clawson, Ann
AU - Song, Amber D.
AU - Grannis, Connor
AU - Sadikova, Eleonora
AU - Pelphrey, Kevin A.
AU - Consortium, Gendaar
AU - Mancilla, Michael
AU - McClellan, Lucy S.
AU - Csumitta, Kelsey D.
AU - Winchenbach, Molly R.
AU - Jilla, Amrita
AU - Alemi, Farrokh
AU - Yang, Ji Seung
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, American Psychologist. All rights reserved
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Gender identity is a core component of human experience, critical to account for in broad health, development, psychosocial research, and clinical practice. Yet, the psychometric characterization of gender has been impeded due to challenges in modeling the myriad gender selfdescriptors, statistical power limitations related to multigroup analyses, and equity-related concerns regarding the accessibility of complex gender terminology. Therefore, this initiative employed an iterative multi-community-driven process to develop the Gender Self-Report (GSR), a multidimensional gender characterization tool, accessible to youth and adults, nonautistic and autistic people, and gender-diverse and cisgender individuals. In Study 1, the GSR was administered to 1,654 individuals, sampled through seven diversified recruitments to be representative across age (10–77 years), gender and sexuality diversity (∼33% each gender diverse, cisgender sexual minority, cisgender heterosexual), and autism status (>33% autistic). A random half-split subsample was subjected to exploratory factor analytics, followed by confirmatory analytics in the full sample. Two stable factors emerged: Nonbinary Gender Diversity and Female–Male Continuum (FMC). FMC was transformed to Binary Gender Diversity based on designated sex at birth to reduce collinearity with designated sex at birth. Differential item functioning by age and autism status was employed to reduce item–response bias. Factors were internally reliable. Study 2 demonstrated the construct, convergent, and ecological validity of GSR factors. Of the 30 hypothesized validation comparisons, 26 were confirmed.
AB - Gender identity is a core component of human experience, critical to account for in broad health, development, psychosocial research, and clinical practice. Yet, the psychometric characterization of gender has been impeded due to challenges in modeling the myriad gender selfdescriptors, statistical power limitations related to multigroup analyses, and equity-related concerns regarding the accessibility of complex gender terminology. Therefore, this initiative employed an iterative multi-community-driven process to develop the Gender Self-Report (GSR), a multidimensional gender characterization tool, accessible to youth and adults, nonautistic and autistic people, and gender-diverse and cisgender individuals. In Study 1, the GSR was administered to 1,654 individuals, sampled through seven diversified recruitments to be representative across age (10–77 years), gender and sexuality diversity (∼33% each gender diverse, cisgender sexual minority, cisgender heterosexual), and autism status (>33% autistic). A random half-split subsample was subjected to exploratory factor analytics, followed by confirmatory analytics in the full sample. Two stable factors emerged: Nonbinary Gender Diversity and Female–Male Continuum (FMC). FMC was transformed to Binary Gender Diversity based on designated sex at birth to reduce collinearity with designated sex at birth. Differential item functioning by age and autism status was employed to reduce item–response bias. Factors were internally reliable. Study 2 demonstrated the construct, convergent, and ecological validity of GSR factors. Of the 30 hypothesized validation comparisons, 26 were confirmed.
KW - Autism
KW - Gender Identity
KW - Measurement
KW - Nonbinary
KW - Transgender
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U2 - 10.1037/amp0001117
DO - 10.1037/amp0001117
M3 - Article
C2 - 36716136
AN - SCOPUS:85150843668
SN - 0003-066X
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
ER -