Spirituality and Identity Formation

Spirituality and Identity Formation

Identity refers to the manner in which individuals from various ethnic factions tend to negotiate with other members of their group belonging to the same culture (Phinney, 2003). Rotheram and Phinney (1987) elaborated on ethnicity as an individual's sense of belonging to an ethnic faction and the part of the person's perceptions, thinking, behaviors and feelings that stem from being the member of his/her group (p, 13). Phirmey in 1993 and 1996 devised a three-step model of identity development that consisted of unchartered ethnic identity, the person's moratorium status and lastly the identity attained by ...