Gender Identity Interview for Children (Zucker et al.,1993)
- Populations: Individuals living with atypical sex development.
- Age ranges: 6-17
- Countries: Canada; Indonesia
Items
- Cognitive gender confusion
- Affective gender confusion
Scoring
“This scale consists of 12 items with a 3-option response mode ranging from 0 to 2: sex-appropriate response (score 0), ambiguous or intermediate response (score 1), and cross-sex response (score 2). Higher scores indicate more gender confusion.” (Ediati et al., 2015)
Citations
- Ediati, A., Juniarto, A. Z., Birnie, E., Drop, S. L. S., Faradz, S. M. H., & Dessens, A. B. (2015). Gender development in indonesian children, adolescents, and adults with disorders of sex development. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44(5), 1339-1361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0493-5
- Wallien, M. S. C., Quilty, L. C., Steensma, T. D., Singh, D., Lambert, S. L., Leroux, A., … Zucker, K. J. (2009). Cross-national replication of the Gender Identity Interview for Children. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 545–552.
- Zucker, K. J., Bradley, S. J., Sullivan, C. B. L., Kuksis, M., Birkenfeld Adams, A., & Mitchell, J. N. (1993). A Gender Identity Interview for Children. Journal of Personality Assessment, 61, 443–456.
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Unknown: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available