self-identity

Examples of self-identity in the following topics:

• Socioemotional Development in Adolescence

  • Adolescents must explore, test limits, become autonomous, and commit to an identity, or sense of self.
  • Different roles, behaviors, and ideologies must be tried out to select an identity, and adolescents continue to refine their sense of self as they relate to others.
  • Three general approaches to understanding identity development include self-concept, sense of identity, and self-esteem.
  • Unlike the conflicting aspects of self-concept, identity represents a coherent sense of self that is stable across circumstances and includes past experiences and future goals.
  • Self-esteem consists of one's thoughts and feelings about one's self-concept and identity.

• Psychological Approaches to the Self

  • The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive or affective representation of one's identity.
  • The psychology of the self is the study of the cognitive or affective representation of one's identity.
  • Current psychological thought suggests that the self plays an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity.
  • While he considered the ego to be the center of an individual's conscious identity, he considered the Self to be the center of an individual's total personality.
  • Discuss the development of a person's identity in relation to both the Kohut and Jungian self

• Adolescent Socialization

  • This is also a time when adolescents start to explore gender identity and sexuality in depth.
  • Among the most common beliefs about adolescence is that it is the time when teens form their personal identities.
  • Researchers have used three general approaches to understanding identity development: self-concept, sense of identity and self-esteem.
  • Unlike the conflicting aspects of self-concept, identity represents a coherent sense of self stable across circumstances and including past experiences and future goals.
  • The final major aspect of identity formation is self-esteem, which is one's thoughts and feelings about one's self-concept and identity.

• Cooley

  • In 1902, Charles Horton Cooley created the concept of the looking-glass self, which explored how identity is formed.
  • An example of the looking-self concept is computer technology.
  • George Herbert Mead described the self as "taking the role of the other," the premise for which the self is actualized.
  • Through interaction with others, we begin to develop an identity about who we are, as well as empathy for others.
  • Discuss Cooley's idea of the "looking-glass self" and how people use socialization to create a personal identity and develop empathy for others

• Identity Formation

  • Individuals gain a social identity and group identity by their affiliations.
  • Self-concept is the sum of a being's knowledge and understanding of himself.
  • Self-concept is different from self-consciousness, which is an awareness of one's self.
  • Cultural identity is one's feeling of identity affiliation to a group or culture.
  • Discuss the formation of a person's identity, as well as the ideas of self-concept and self-consciousness

• Self-Knowledge and Evaluating the Personality Perspective

  • Personality research aims to understand the individual and the major psychological processes that contribute to identity.
  • Many researchers currently define personality as one's personal identity, both self-perceived and as perceived by others.
  • Central traits are basic to an individual's personality, while secondary traits are less central to one's identity.
  • Questions like "What is my personal identity?
  • Some researchers use notions such as self-concept, the looking-glass self, and the ideal self to understand individual ideas of self-knowledge.

• Gender Identity in Everyday Life

  • Gender identity is one's sense of one's own gender.
  • Gender identity is one's sense of being male, female, or a third gender.
  • Gender identity is socially constructed, yet it still pertains to one's sense of self.
  • Transsexuals, however, take drastic measures to assume their believed identity.
  • Sociologists tend to emphasize the environmental impetuses for gender identity.

• The Nature of Groups

  • One way of determining if a collection of people can be considered a group is if individuals who belong to that collection use the self-referent pronoun "we;" using "we" to refer to a collection of people often implies that the collection thinks of itself as a group.
  • Explicitly contrasted with a social cohesion-based definition for social groups is the social identity perspective, which draws on insights made in social identity theory.
  • The social identity approach posits that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the formation of social groups is "awareness of a common category membership" and that a social group can be "usefully conceptualized as a number of individuals who have internalized the same social category membership as a component of their self concept. " Stated otherwise, while the social cohesion approach expects group members to ask "who am I attracted to?
  • " the social identity perspective expects group members to simply ask "who am I?
  • Contrast the social cohesion-based concept of a social group with the social identity concept

• The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

  • While they are deciding, the dialogue taking place inside their mind is usually a dialogue between their "self" (that portion of their identity that calls itself "I") and that person's internalized understanding of their friends and society (a "generalized other").
  • There are three main components of the looking glass self:
  • George Herbert Mead described self as "taking the role of the other," the premise for which the self is actualized.
  • Through interaction with others, we begin to develop an identity about who we are, as well as empathy for others.
  • This drawing depicts the looking-glass self.

• Gender as a Spectrum and Transgender Identities

  • The gender continuum (sometimes referred to as the gender matrix) is an extension of this gender spectrum that includes additional gender identities.
  • The continuum approach to gender identity provides individuals with more personal freedom in which to express themselves.
  • Transgender is an umbrella term that refers to the state of one's gender identity (in other words, one's self-identification as woman, man, neither, both, or something different) not matching one's assigned sex (their identification by others as male, female, or intersex, based on genetic and biological characteristics).
  • The umbrella of transgender identities includes many different and sometimes-overlapping categories.
  • People often conflate the term "transvestite" (the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the other sex) with "transgender"; cross-dressing is typically a form of self-expression, entertainment, or personal style, and not necessarily an expression about one's gender identity.