Unconfirmed identity as an indicator of social failure of personality in different age periods

Abstract

Personal identity studies in psychology demonstrate the relevance of studying this phenomenon and the concomitant problem of selecting methods that would allow the researcher to obtain information about the underlying layers of the personality. One of the methods available for this purpose − introspection, or structured self-observation − has allowed the study to obtain data on the content components, structural organization and qualitative specificity of the components of personal identity. The study shows identity factors and the intensity of identification processes in socially unsuccessful respondents. The study shows that the lack of positive reinforcement of society in the important for the individual activity is interpreted as the need to strengthen the signs of their own uniqueness. Unconfirmed identity is more intense, filled with meaningful external identification characteristics, and is a thing of the past. The analysis was carried out through the age specificity of personality identifications.