GENDER CONSTANCY

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Nugent, Pam M.S.
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the a child's emerging sense of the permanence of being a boy or a girl and an understanding that occurs in a series of stages that include gender identity, gender stability and gender consistency.

GENDER CONSTANCY: "Gender constancy starts in our childhood."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. PSYCHOGENDER
  2. ATYPICAL GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER
  3. SENSE OF IDENTITY
  4. ROLE CONFUSION
  5. GENDER IDEN
  6. GENDER IDENTITY
  7. SEXUAL IDENTITY
  8. TRANSSEXUALISM
  9. SENSE OF SELF
  10. GENDER DYSPHORIA
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., "GENDER CONSTANCY," in PsychologyDictionary.org, May 11, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/gender-constancy/ (accessed December 13, 2018).
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