Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

This thesis consists of four separate manuscripts.Manuscript I is an historical introduction and evaluative review of gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.Manuscripts II and III revalidate parts of the Terman-Miles M-F Test and several nonverbal sex-differentiating tasks.The final manuscript compares recently-admitted affective disorders, noninstitutionalized controls, recently-admitted nonparanoid schizophrenics, and long-term nonparanoid schizophrenics.Appropriate gender differences emerge on tests of gender identity and gender-role adoption.And schizophrenics have neither a faulty gender-role knowledge nor a differential perception of gender-role reinforcement by parents or hospital staff.But schizophrenics do prefer more opposite sex roles.0