self-identity

The line between person and persona, private and public self become blurred or erased completely and the so-called self-identity becomes a means of our acceptance and status.

Dr. Jim Taylor: Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities? Dr. Jim Taylor 2011

The line between person and persona, private and public self become blurred or erased completely and the so-called self-identity becomes a means of our acceptance and status.

Dr. Jim Taylor: Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities? Dr. Jim Taylor 2011

Catholics are also a major share of the religious population, but they are more easily recognized through self-identification, since their denomination, religious tradition, and self-identity are all one and the same.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Societal heterosexism prevents some LGBT people from developing an authentic self-identity and adds to the pressure to marry someone of the other sex, which in turn places undue stress and, often, trauma on themselves as well as their heterosexual spouses and their children.

Warren J. Blumenfeld: Heterosexism and GOP Presidential Candidates Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011

In mid-seventeenth century America, the shape of the inner soul and the shape of the outward form are not the same thing: one is self-identity and the other is identity among the group.

Nina Sankovitch: Searching for Self: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Nina Sankovitch 2011

It calls into question the adequacy of materialistic science, upon which these people have staked their careers, self-identity and self-esteem.

Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

So we are beginning to be able to understand the Republican denial of science as part of a motivated process in which certain scientific claims are seen as so threatening to self-identity and group affiliations that they must be rejected in order to preserve a sense of self.

Marvin Meadors: Why the Republican War on Science? Marvin Meadors 2012

I think in all three cases there is an element of self-identity grown upon a hard kernal of truth.

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009

So we are beginning to be able to understand the Republican denial of science as part of a motivated process in which certain scientific claims are seen as so threatening to self-identity and group affiliations that they must be rejected in order to preserve a sense of self.

Marvin Meadors: Why the Republican War on Science? Marvin Meadors 2012

In mid-seventeenth century America, the shape of the inner soul and the shape of the outward form are not the same thing: one is self-identity and the other is identity among the group.

Nina Sankovitch: Searching for Self: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Nina Sankovitch 2011