Indexes and Scales
To what extent is one’s gendered self-concept a cause or a consequence of one’s self-rated health? Does the relationship between gender iden-tification and health hold when health is operation-alized using specific health behaviors or medical diagnoses?
Do these patterns apply to both trans-gender and cisgender people and children as well asadults? How would studies of structural determi-nants of health also benefit from a gradational.
What are “categorical” measurements and how do they limit the ability to measure gender on surveys?
What do the researchers do to go “beyond” categorical measurements of gender? How do they measure gender?
What is the “reflected appraisal gender scale” that the researchers use?
How did the researchers measure health?
