Abstract

This article analyzed of modified version of the questionnaire “Personal and Social Identity” by OLSI (FPSI-K – short form) for study of self-understanding of personal and social identity in modern Kyrgyz society. After a deep analysis, can assume a complex relationship between personal and social identity, in which the processes of social identification and individual demarcation are in a dynamic relationship

Keywords

identity, self-understanding, self-awareness, self-criticism, psychosomatic complaints, depression

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