Author(s)

Ana Beatriz Garcia Costa Rodrigues¹, Claus Dieter Stobäus², Juan José Mouriño Mosquera³

¹Postgraduate Program in Education of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Psychology Faculty, Tiradentes University, Aracaju-AL, Brasil.
²Postgraduate Programs in Education and in Biomedical Gerontology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
³Postgraduate Program in Education, Pro-Rectory of Postgraduate and Research, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.

This study aims to list elements for a better understanding and study of identity in the theoretical bias of Positive Psychology. We start from a conception of identity as constitution of the subject, fluid, process, unfinished, constantly building throughout life. It occurs from experiences in certain contexts, the person considering its ontological, social and cultural aspects. Based on Positive Psychology literature review on the subject identity, we find very little published material on this topic in our reality, which leads us to make some links between the constituent elements of the construction of the identity concept in psychology, with the Positive Psychology, among them well-being, self-esteem, self-image and resilience, trying to delineate the possibility of having the identity (more) healthy, a possible object of study in the field of study. The fact that these concepts also are not static and are due to the subject’s interactions with the environment in which it develops leads us to consider that this is a plausible way to add healthy identity of the Positive Psychology study objects.

Identity, Positive Psychology, Wellness, Healthy Identity

Rodrigues, A. , Stobäus, C. and Mosquera, J. (2016) Identity as Study Object of Positive Psychology. Creative Education, 7, 1119-1125. doi: 10.4236/ce.2016.78116.