Certain Gender Identity Specificities of Students

Abstract

The articles covers certain gender identity specifi cities of modern students on the example of their self identifying characteristics using the method “Who Am I?” by M. Cun, Y. Macpartland in the modifi cation by T. Rumyantseva. In particular it was found out that the indirect gender defi ning (through endings and social roles) dominates in the student period, which can show the unsuffi cient adoption of gender identity by students. On the whole, we can conclude that students have a wide range of characteristics describing gender indirectly. The direct gender defi ning analysis showed that we can speak of women personalities becoming androgynous and men personalities whose gender identity period is longer compared with women. The reasons of the results got are explained in social-cultural context.