Gender Identity Interview for Children (Zucker et al.,1993)

Children’s cognitive and emotional understanding of their gender and the desire to be the other sex; 12 Items, ages 6-17
  • 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

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