Cyprus Mental Health Institute Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology 1302-7840 2667-8225 5 1 Turkish 1 N N Y 2023 3 01 Full Length Paper Identity Crises and Personality Disorders: Mediator Role of Authenticity> English Y 58 66 Faik Taşçı Turkish İstanbul Zaim University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Istanbul Turkey faik.tasci@izu.edu.tr N 0000-0001-8049-1329 Yusuf Bilge Turkish Turkey yusuf.bilge@izu.edu.tr Y 0000-0003-2754-9119 10.35365/ctjpp.23.1.07 The main purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of authenticity, which can be defined as the capacity to act in accordance with one's own identity, in the relationship between personality disorders and identity construction, which continues throughout life, according to Erikson's psychosocial personality theory. Participating in a total of 429 individuals [230 females (53.6%) and 199 males (46.4%), aged between 18 and 79 (M.= 34.83, SD.= 11.71)], the study was a cross-sectional screening study. According to the results of the analysis, while all the variables showed significant and strong relationships with each other, it was found that authenticity had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between the core strength of commitment and personality disorder clusters. The results of the research have shown that Erikson's lifelong claim of identity and personality development and dynamic authenticity in the existential approach are complementary to each other, and if these do not occur in a healthy way, pathology emerges. English identity, identity crisis, authenticity, personality disorders https://www.ktppdergisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/7.Identity-Crises-and-Personality-Disorders.pdf https://www.ktppdergisi.com/identity-crises-and-personality-disorders-mediator-role-of-authenticity_abstract/?lang=en https://www.ktppdergisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/7.Identity-Crises-and-Personality-Disorders.pdf English References 58 66