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Gender-diverse youth report slightly elevated emotional sensitivity & distress - C C - Sep 22, 2025
Gender-diverse youth report slightly elevated emotional sensitivity and interpersonal distress
https://www.psypost.org/gender-diverse-youth-report-slightly-elevated-emotional-sensitivity-and-interpersonal-distress/
EXCERPT: . . . Maladaptive personality traits were assessed across five broad domains: negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism.
Negative affectivity reflects a tendency toward frequent and intense negative emotions.
Detachment captures social withdrawal and reduced positive emotionality.
Antagonism involves hostility, grandiosity, and manipulativeness.
Disinhibition represents impulsivity, risk-taking, and irresponsibility.
Psychoticism reflects eccentric behavior, cognitive-perceptual disturbances, and unusual beliefs.
These traits describe personality patterns that can become maladaptive when extreme, although they are not themselves diagnostic of a personality disorder. The results indicated that gender-diverse participants, on average, reported slightly to moderately higher levels of negative affect, detachment, and borderline personality features compared to their gender-conforming peers.
Younger participants—those aged 14 to 16—tended to report modestly higher levels of antagonism, disinhibition, psychoticism, borderline personality features, and gender dysphoria compared to older age groups. Participants with more pronounced gender dysphoria also tended to report higher levels of negative affect, detachment, and borderline features... (MORE - details)