IDENTITY CRISIS AND ITS ROLE IN AMPLIFICATION OF SOCIAL DEVITALIZATION OF PERSONALITY

The paper deals with identity crisis as a state determined by the changes in social environment of the 19th-20th centuries and the destruction of a mechanism allowing people to establish their belonging to a certain group. Identity crisis exhausts a person by the necessity of searching for the answer to the question “Who am I?” Such a state has arisen because of the identity's loss of stability, conservatism of the structure which was a set of psycho-age characteristics which gradually replaced each other. In the development of social devitalization, identity crisis acts as a source of impulse of searching for aspects by the personality, which provide his/her internal organization. In a situation of social devitalization, a personality hopes for social revitalization after overcoming the state of identity crisis.