Emotional Problems, Perceived Social Support, Self-Esteem, And Authenticity Among Transgender

Abstract

Transgender are the most vulnerable, marginalized, deprived, and isolated community in our society. The inappropriate attitude of family and society has made the life of transgender very difficult.

The present study aimed to assess the level of social support, self-esteem, and authenticity in trans genders, and to understand the Emotional problems of trans genders. A total of 89  trans genders  completed a self-report questionnaire that included Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg,1979), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet et al.,1988), the Authenticity Scale (Wood et al.,2008), and Human figure drawing HFD (Koppitz 1983).

According to this study’s findings, they have immature, impulsive personalities, low self-esteem, and poor self-concept and have a feeling of helplessness and anger.

It was also concluded that perceived social support, self-esteem, and authenticity were directly related. Self-esteem is also a positive predictor of an authentic personality. which determined that if the individuals have perceived social support, it has a drastic effect on their personality in general these individuals have high self-esteem, are not easily get influenced by others, and are having more authentic personalities as compared to transgender who have low social support