Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry & Psychology Vol.5 Issue.1

Doi:10.35365/ctjpp.23.1.07

RESEARCH ARTICLE / ARAŞTIRMA YAZISI

Identity Crises and Personality Disorders: Mediator Role of Authenticity

Kimlik Krizi ve Kişilik Bozuklukları: Otantikliğin Aracı Rolü

Faik Taşçı1, Yusuf Bilge2

Abstract:

The main purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of authenticity, which can be defined as the capacity to act in accordance with one’s own identity, in the relationship between personality disorders and identity construction, which continues throughout life, according to Erikson’s psychosocial personality theory. Participating in a total of 429 individuals [230 females (53.6%) and 199 males (46.4%), aged between 18 and 79 (M.= 34.83, SD.= 11.71)], the study was a cross-sectional screening study. According to the results of the analysis, while all the variables showed significant and strong relationships with each other, it was found that authenticity had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between the core strength of commitment and personality disorder clusters. The results of the research have shown that Erikson’s lifelong claim of identity and personality development and dynamic authenticity in the existential approach are complementary to each other, and if these do not occur in a healthy way, pathology emerges.

Keywords: identity, identity crisis, authenticity, personality disorders

* This study is produced from the master’s thesis titled “Investigation of Personality Disorders in DSM-5 in terms of Psychosocial Developmental Periods and Existential Authenticity”

 

1Research Asst., İstanbul Zaim University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Istanbul-Turkey, [email protected], Orcid; 0000-0001-8049-1329

2Assoc. Prof, İstanbul Zaim University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Istanbul-Turkey, [email protected], Orcid; 0000-0003-2754-9119

Address of Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Faik Taşçı, İstanbul Zaim University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Istanbul-Turkey, E-mail: [email protected]

Date of Received/Geliş Tarihi: 20.02.2022, Date of Revision/Düzeltme Tarihi: 20.06.2022, Date of Acceptance/Kabul Tarihi: 20.02.2023, Date of Online Publication/Çevirimiçi Yayın Tarihi: 06.03.2023

Citing/Referans Gösterimi: Taşçı, F. & Bilge, Y. (2023). Identity Crises and Personality Disorders: Mediator Role of Authenticity, Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry & Psychology, 5(1): 58-66

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