FEATURES OF PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STRESS IN PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT GENDER IDENTITIES: HORMONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS
Abstract
. We have studied the psychological characteristics and hormonal status of individuals according to their gender identity. 173 volunteers of both sexes were examined in conditions of rest and psycho -emotional stress (the exam situation served as a model of emotional stress). Personal anxiety did not differ at all subjects before stress, except for masculine men, at whom it was low. They also had a high degree of hardiness, control and challenge. At the same time, the level of hardiness of both sexes feminins was low. If the cortisol content in the blood before stress did not have significant differences in different groups, then in a state of emotional stress, its content increased in all people with a gender identity opposite to the biological sex and in androgynes of both sexes. The study of the level of sex hormones in the blood of the subjects before and under emotional stress had no fundamental differences, according to their biological sex.short -term