Table 1.
Frequencies and means of the gender nonconformity scores
| n (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolutely not |
Mostly not |
Rarely | Sometimes | Often | Very often | Always | M (SD) | |
| Scale items for boys | ||||||||
| I am being called a girlish by my peers | 372 (72.0) | 100 (19.3) | 22 (4.3) | 20 (3.9) | - | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) | 1.43 (0.84) |
| I sometimes wish I had been born a girl rather than a boy | 478 (92.5) | 25 (4.8) | 4 (0.8) | 7 (1.4) | - | - | 3 (0.6) | 1.14 (0.63) |
| I prefer hanging out with girls rather than boys | 239 (46.3) | 115 (22.3) | 74 (14.3) | 77 (14.9) | 5 (1.0) | 4 (0.8) | 2 (0.4) | 2.06 (1.23) |
| I avoid wearing typical men’s/boys clothing | 397 (76.9) | 77 (14.9) | 13 (2.5) | 16 (3.1) | 4 (0.8) | 5 (1.0) | 4 (0.8) | 1.42 (1.00) |
| I am a feminine boy | 441 (85.5) | 51 (9.9) | 7 (1.4) | 6 (1.2) | 3 (0.6) | 2 (0.4) | 6 (1.2) | 1.27 (0.89) |
| Scale items for girls | ||||||||
| I am being called a boyish by my peers | 357 (69.3) | 87 (16.9) | 42 (8.2) | 21 (4.1) | 1 (.02) | 4 (0.8) | 3 (0.6) | 1.54 (1.01) |
| I sometimes wish I had been born a boy rather than a girl | 436 (84.7) | 49 (9.5) | 12 (2.3) | 16 (3.1) | - | 2 (0.4) | - | 1.25 (0.70) |
| I prefer hanging out with boys rather than girls | 236 (45.9) | 112 (21.8) | 78 (15.2) | 70 (13.6) | 5 (1.0) | 7 (1.4) | 6 (1.2) | 2.10 (1.32) |
| I avoid wearing typical women’s/girls’ clothing | 354 (68.9) | 77 (15.0) | 33 (6.4) | 36 (7.0) | 3 (0.6) | 3 (0.6) | 8 (1.6) | 1.64 (1.20) |
| I am a masculine girl | 385 (74.9) | 76 (14.8) | 24 (4.7) | 22 (4.3) | 3 (0.6) | 1 (0.2) | 3 (0.6) | 1.43 (0.93) |
| Total score gender nonconformity | 1.53 (0.66) | |||||||