Characteristics of Adolescents' Gender Identity.

Current studies on gender identification indicate that this personality formation is complex. It is viewed primarily as the individual's realization and experience of the position of the Self [Ia] with respect to gender images and models [3]. It has been shown that a low level of differentiation of gender models reduces the influence that gender identity has as a mechanism that influences a person's behavior, choice of values, and so forth [4; 5]. Studies on the developmental dynamic of gender identity indicate that there are two crises in its development, one between the ages of 3 and 5 and the second in adolescence [1]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]