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What is Identity Flexibility During Adulthood : Perspectives in Adult Development about?
"This volume seeks to explore the idea of identity as a flexible center of events around which aspects of the self and events in the outside world are organized. Historically, in much of the literature, identity was conceptualized as a somewhat fixed, unchanging construct. Scholars now have a greater awareness of more nuanced theories about identity and there is a greater willingness to accept that identity is not fixed, concrete, and permanent, but rather evolving and fluid. Although this volume discusses a wide variety of aspects of identity as it flexibly changes during adulthood in the face of numerous experiences, it is really addressing one key question. How adaptive and fluid is identity and how can we know ourselves as both continuing and changing? Exploring these ideas raises the importance of future research on adult identity. With a firm grounding in the historical and theoretical background of identity research, this volume begins by defining identity and the psychological "self" as a center around which the person's behaviors and self-concepts revolve. The following chapters gather the wisdom of many writers who all accepted the challenge of talking about creating a fl
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jan D. Sinnott
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319556581
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Social_sciences