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THE ASIAN CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY & THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
THE ASIAN CONFERENCE ON ETHICS, RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
ART CENTER KOBE, KOBE, JAPAN MARCH 22-25, 2017
ACP ACERP 2017
The Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy Conference Themes
ACP2017: “Identity: Personalising & Situating Psychology”
The study of Identity in Psychology was pioneered by Erik Erikson in his early work in the 1950s and 60s, such as Identity: Youth and Crisis and Identity and the Life Cycle. He looked at three aspects of identity – ego identity, personal identity and social identity. Developing a strong sense of ego identity, a coherent sense of who one is and isn’t, that is consistent and stable over time, is a key task in adolescence. Ego identity can also be equated with the personality level of identity. One’s personal identity is based on one’s abilities, goals and possibilities for the future and can be seen as the level of identity in uenced most by one s primary relationships while one s social identity is formed through identification with groups or secondary relationships, and shows one s position within the social structure.