# Views of Gender in Adolescence

> **NIH NIH R01** · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $35,361

## Abstract

Project Summary (Parent Grant)
Categorization is a fundamental aspect of human cognition that allows for efficient learning, generalization, and
communication. Throughout development, humans categorize the objects, people, and events around them.
The proposed work examines social categorization with a focus on gender. Gender categories are early
emerging, yet influential throughout the lifespan. Broader societal ideas about gender appear to be changing,
however, and this grant asks how those changes may or may not be reflected in how adolescents are
categorizing gender, their beliefs about gender, and their self-categorization by gender. Using a pair of
longitudinal studies, including a 5-year annual study (ongoing from the previous grant period) and a month-long
daily experience sampling study, this grant will document how these constructs are or are not changing
amongst adolescents and the relation between these constructs and their social environments. Finally, in this
work, we examine the links between adolescents’ beliefs about gender, self-categorization with gender, and
their health and well-being. Participants include adolescents and adults who are gender diverse and cisgender.
Together this work will advance theory and practice about topics ranging from categorization and adolescent
gender development to reducing mental health disparities in transgender youth.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10929591
- **Project number:** 3R01HD092347-07S2
- **Recipient organization:** PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Kristina Olson
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $35,361
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2024-03-01 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10929591

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10929591, Views of Gender in Adolescence (3R01HD092347-07S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10929591. Licensed CC0.

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