The phrase "ascribe themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how individuals attribute certain qualities, characteristics, or identities to themselves.
Example: "Many people ascribe themselves to various cultural movements to express their beliefs and values."
Alternatives: "attribute to themselves" or "assign to themselves".
Individuals define themselves in terms of their group membership and ascribe themselves characteristics typical of the group [ 29].
In total, views were sought from 104 participants who were asked to become involved in one or more of the consensus activities, and to ascribe themselves to one (or more) of five stakeholder groups: (i) clinician/practitioner, (ii) service provider/clinical manager, (iii) service user/carer/ advocate, (iv) service commissioner or planner, (v) health service researcher (see Tables 2 and 3).
Participants were asked again to self-ascribe themselves to multiple and then a 'main' stakeholder group, as shown in Table 3.
Others, however, ascribed themselves a more 'medical' title, including nurse/nursing aider (5), prescriber (1), pharmacist (1) and 'medical centre' (1).
People with gender dysphoria, formerly known as gender identity disorder, experience significant stress and impairment as a result of a feeling a discrepancy between their anatomical sex and the gender that they ascribe to themselves.
For example, children do not seem to be able to ascribe to themselves past false beliefs (after having been tricked by the experimenter) any earlier than they can ascribe false beliefs to other people.
As for guilt, if they should dare to ascribe it to themselves or to each other, I have threatened to come back and haunt them.
Moreover, children appear to ascribe beliefs to themselves in the same way they ascribe beliefs to others.
Yet in investment banking there is nothing nearly so tangible to which to ascribe the gains.Bankers themselves are fuzzy about explaining their trading profits, bandying about phrases such as "deploying our intellectual capital".
A second area of developmental research asks whether children ascribe mental states to themselves before they ascribe them to others.
While dreamers can act upon desires or impulses, they do not experience themselves as a self in the act of deciding, attending or rationally thinking about certain events, and they cannot ascribe this property to themselves.
