The Correlation between Gender Identity and Communication Focus in Adults

Abstract

The article discusses the characteristics of the communication focus in adults, identifying themselves with different types of gender identity. The study involved 75 people, 45 men and 30 women aged from 18 to 57. Two psychodiagnostic techniques were used: Bem Sex-Role Inventory (adaptation by M. Burakova) and “Personality Focus in Communication†by S. L. Bratchenko. The results of the study showed the specificity of the hierarchy of communication focus depending on gender, described significant differences between some types of communication focus in masculine, feminine, androgynous and undifferentiated types. A significant positive interrelation between authoritarian communication focus and masculine type of gender identity and negative interrelation with feminine type of gender identity was found. The data obtained can be applied in individual and group counseling, as well as with the aim of developing training programs in order to optimize communication focus in connection with gender identity, as well as to predict the behavior of people with different gender identities.