Kubrichenko T. The formation of gender identity of girl-students of the Pedagogical college.

In the thesis the theoretical and experimental ground of social and psychological conditions of formation of women's gender identity in youth was presented. The main approaches to learning of gender identification's problems were analyzed. The contend of notions "gender identity", "gender socialization", "gender role", "sexual self-consciousness" in historical and cultural, social and psychological contexts was opened. Levels, stages, landmarks, aspects, types, phenomena of gender identification, age dynamics of its coming-to-be of girls were defined. The specific character of formation of women's gender "I" was shown. Gender identity's structure of girl -students of the Pedagogical college, its significance in the structure "I - conception" of girls was researched, the system of interdependences of expressing of gender characteristics with personality's traits, social identity's components of meaning, with the status of women's formal group was revealed. Meaning, stability, main directions of development of gender characteristics in personality's structure of young girls was learnt. The list of factors was added, which caused favorable position of a girl in homogender (women's) formal group by sexual structure, factors of expressing of a girl-student's feminine characteristics and her dependence on gender stereotypes.