Dinesh Bhugra, Alexander Smith, Michael Liebrenz, Antonio Ventriglio, Sam Nishanth Gnanapragasam, Ana Buadze, Max Pemberton, Daniel Poulter
Identity is a complex concept that can be informed by various factors, involving biological, psychological, experiential, and social influences. Specifically, one's social identity refers to the ways in which individuals can adopt attributes from established collective categories, like cultural identities, ethnic identities, gender identities, and class identities, amongst others. Social identity can encompass unique and diverse interactions at an individual level, known as micro-identities, that may be selectively expressed, hidden, or downplayed, contingent on distinct sociocultural settings...
2023: International Review of Psychiatry