Psychological identity
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Identity in psychological terms relates to self-image, self-esteem and individuation. An important part of identity in psychology is gender identity, as this dictates to some degree how a person views themself as a person in relation to other people.
The concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history. Factors influencing the emphasis on such psychological identity include:
- Protestant stress on one's responsibility for one's own soul
- Psychology itself, emerging as a distinct field of knowledge and speculation
- The growth of a sense of privacy
- Specialisation of function in early modern times, as opposed to the undifferentiated masses of socially immobile underlings in the feudal pyramid
- How Occupation and Employment can affect Identity
- Gender identity; see also gender identity disorder, transgender
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