Post: Consider a relationship in which you either are or were personally involved and in which a lack of trust was a major issue. How do you think the problem of trust affects (or may have affected) the identity of each person? How might you (now or in the past if your conflict is not a current one) use your newly acquired concept of identity to build trust with the other person?

In your post, integrate references to the required journal articles (you can read or listen to the articles at the links provided, or download a PDF for your personal use). Each provides a psychological theoretical perspective that helps contextualize your primary text reading for the week. Include at least one reference to each article. How do you relate these theories and findings to your experiences of losing and building (or rebuilding) trust?

Overcoming the tribes effect: The overview effect as a means to promote con...: OneSearch for Abilene Christian University (ebscohost.com)

present two different cultural psychological forces that shape personal understandings of identity in conflict resolution: the tribes effect and the overview effect. You can consider these as competing tensions on relevant identity factors in conflict: one that asks you to set up barriers, or one that asks you to rise above and consider the whole.

Coping with Identity Conflict: Perceptions of Self as Flexible versus Fixed...: OneSearch for Abilene Christian University (ebscohost.com)

offer an experimental take on the relationship between identity conflict, well-being, and self-esteem. Identity conflict is defined as the experience of two or more identities offering "incompatible sets of values,...unleashing some internal conflict" (p. 225, para. 2). Two common sources of identity conflict they identify: working mothers and mature learners. Across their studies, the authors find that a key determining variable is how people view themselves: is the self stable, or is it flexible? Can it adapt to change in identity and values over time? If so, the view of the self may then offer a psychologically protective function to well-being and self-esteem, which can otherwise be negatively impacted by identity conflict.