Attitude to the disease in boys and girls with different gender identities
DOI: 10.23951/2307-6127-2023-5-187-194
The question of the influence of the psychological characteristic gender identity on the attitude of representatives of modern youth to the disease is considered. The results of a diagnostic study of the relationship between gender identity and types of attitude to the disease are presented. The characteristic of the concept of “disease” is given, the analysis of two main models of the occurrence and course of the disease is given: biomedical and biopsychosocial. Studies of the peculiarities of responding to the loss of health of carriers of a particular gender are analyzed. It is noted that gender-specific attitudes to the disease can become an important factor in the overall improvement of the situation in the healthcare sector and in the daily life of carriers of different gender roles, the overall improvement of the level and quality of life of the population. The data presented in this article allow us to conclude that taking into account behavioral reactions, individual typological characteristics of a person will help to avoid an increase in symptoms generated by the most stressful situation – the disease. The results obtained prove that the behavior model and individual reactions of people are often determined by gender, which in modern realities does not always coincide with gender.
Keywords: illness, attitude to illness, gender, gender identity
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Issue: 5, 2023
Series of issue: Issue 5
Rubric: PSYCHOLOGY
Pages: 187 — 194
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