(2017) Science and education, 7, 126-129. Odessa.

Nataliia Donii,
Doctor of Philosophy, associate professor,
Department of Economics and Social Disciplines,
Academy of State Penitentiary Service,
34, Honcha Str., Chernihiv, Ukraine

IDENTITY CRISIS AND ITS ROLE IN AMPLIFICATION
OF SOCIAL DEVITALIZATION OF PERSONALITY

The paper deals with identity crisis as a state determined by the changes in social environment of the 19th -20th centuries and the destruction of a mechanism allowing people to establish their belonging to a certain group. Identity crisis exhausts a person by the necessity of searching for the answer to the question “Who am I?” Such a state has arisen because of the identity’s loss of stability, conservatism of the structure which was a set of psycho-age characteristics which gradually replaced each other. In the development of social devitalization, identity crisis acts as a source of impulse of searching for aspects by the personality, which provide his/her internal organization. In a situation of social devitalization, a personality hopes for social revitalization after overcoming the state of identity crisis.

identity, identity crisis, social environment, social devitalization, anomie.

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