There are controversies among psychologists and sociologists on defining identity as a "property of person" or a "property of environment," as a fact independent of culture or a reality constructed through societal structures, as a monumental occurrence limited to the developmental stage of adolescence or an incrementally developing phenomenon throughout the life-course, and finally, as a phenomenon to be explained through a collage of empirical findings and factual building blocks or a phenomenon tested against a theory constructed in advance of empirical investigations (J. Côté, 2006; J. E. Côté & Levine, 2014). The purpose of this study is to examine different models of reconciling psychological and cultural aspects of the identity formation process.
