Self-awareness allows individuals to have a sense of who they are in relation to society and culture. By reflexively adjusting one’s perception of self in reaction to society, people construct their individual identity. Approaches to identity abound, and they refer to many different ideas about the self, much of which is grounded in contemporary Western cultural values. Frequently, identity refers to at least two different aspects of the individual – that which is an internalized notion of the self, and that which is the projected version of one’s internalized self. Researchers have constructed this distinction in.
