research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...

Objective: This study was conducted to examine the relationships between dispositional mindfulness, temperament, personality traits, and identity styles and to determine the predictive power of dispositional mindfulness, temperament, personality traits in identity styles. Methods: 223 students (120 females and 103 males) from the universities in Tehran were selected as the sample. The data wer...

Memory is the reflection of real-life situation and can present a sense self identity, which has always been an unavoidable element in writings diasporic writers. Taking memory writing Jane Rhys’ Voyage Dark as entry point, this paper attempts to interpret that appear by combining with cultural memory, landscape identity theory. By about heroine Anna Morgan’s memories West Indies, Rhys analyzes...

Within psychology and psychiatry, gender identity has developed at least two distinguishable meanings: awareness of anatomy (e.g., Stoller, 1974) and endorsing specific traits that are stereotypical of different gender groups (e.g., Bem, 1974; Wood & Eagly, 2010). However, neither existing approach has considered gender identity to be a self-categorization process that exists within personality...

OBJECTIVE To develop a theoretically sound, client-derived framework to underpin development of a measure reflecting the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on a person's self-identity. DESIGN Grounded theory, based on transcription of audio recordings from focus group meetings with people who have experienced TBI, analysed with constant comparative methods. SETTING 8 different urban and...

This paper describes a self-systemic approach to the study of personality structure and process. Personality is conceptualized as organized around the ways one is committed to identifying oneself. Central to personality structure are those social roles the person is committed to performing. These role identities are the fundamental criteria by which goals, activities, and situations are selecte...

Identity resilience is conceptualized in Process Theory as a relatively stable self-schema, akin to trait. said be high when individuals perceive their identity characterized by overall combined rating of self-efficacy, self-esteem, continuity and distinctiveness. People reporting higher respond more favorably to, cope effectively with, events situations that question or threaten identity. The ...