Looking for My Identity

My father was a tailor and mother trained as a dressmaker. Meanwhile I gained a B. Yet many years later when my father passed away, that image perished along with him. I abandoned the identity of the successful designer since it was not what I desired after all. So we must venture beyond who we think we are to allow the authentic self to reflect our identity. We should step outside our comfort zone, to peer through an alternate reality if we wish to discover who we really are. It summons the question: Known as individuation, a Jungian term which refers to transformation of the psyche by uniting the personal and collective unconscious into conscious.

It is the awareness of oneself to discover your true identity.

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Erik Erikson, a developmental psychologist, proposed we undergo eight stages to psychosocial development throughout our life. In keeping with this understanding, make it a lasting priority to discover your essential self to avoid living an inauthentic life. Once realized, strive to live according to those values and principles by embodying them at the deepest level.

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Be wary of associating conduct with identity given its inaccurate measure of character. Behavior is fluid and changes as you grow and evolve. True identity is formed through self-awareness, by letting go of conditioned thoughts and beliefs. At this level your choices are in alignment with your true identity. You challenge long held beliefs, by choosing to retain thoughts that resonate with your deepest self, while discarding others. As your life circumstances change, you integrate those experiences into your identity. Your self-esteem is reinforced when you uphold this image.

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Cultural identities diminish overtime while the authentic self is timeless and not bound by labels. The authentic self is often obscured beneath the veil of an imagined self which thrives due to the reinforced image of self. Individuals inhabit worlds that are relevant to their self-definitions, starting with very basic cognitive processes by directing their attentional resources to focus on aspects of their environments that are identity-relevant.

Thus, we find that consumers use their attention to help themselves live that identity by actually changing their view of the world to match their self. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. View More on Journal Insights. Your Research Data Share your research data Visualize your data. Publishing your article with us has many benefits, such as having access to a personal dashboard: This free service is available to anyone who has published and whose publication is in Scopus. Researcher Academy Author Services Try out personalized alert features.

Looking for My Self: Return to Forthcoming Articles. Journal of Consumer Psychology. How can you understand how a person derives their sense of identity? A good way is to watch for 'I' statements.

The Need for a Sense of Identity

Statements of ability show how a person identifies themself in terms of what they can do. This can be anything from assertion of rights to skills and career item. Possessions say a lot about a person. Some possessions in particular are strongly related to how people define themselves, such as cars, clothes and cameras. Another very strong 'have' item is about family and people will talk in particular about their children. We associate our identity with the things and people we like.

This when a person says they like flying or like a particular rock group, they are connecting their self with these and including associated concepts into their identity. The verb to be associates any concept very closely with identity and this can be used to connect other types of identification item.

What is lost can never be found, what is found can never be forgotten.

This can include emotions I am happy , career I am an accountant , religion I am Buddhist , social position I am popular and so on. We also identify ourselves through our memories and any form or recall, especially of personal and emotionally significant events, younger days and other nostalgia offers further clues to a person's sense of identity.

Help them join groups. Tell them they are good and attractive.

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Give them recognition and reward for what they do. Or hint that they are not that perfect.

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Whisper how others might not approve of what they are doing. Clusters , Control , Contrast principle , Control-Identity types. Belonging , Esteem , Identity. More Kindle book s: And the big paperback book. Please help and share: Home Top Menu Quick Links. Take a look at the needs: Identity formation The sense of identity appears early on in life as the infant begins to separate themselves from an undifferentiated unity with their mother.