The phrase "construct identity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about the process of creating an identity, either for yourself or for something else. For example, you might say: "My teenage years were spent trying to construct an identity for myself."
The expansion of our digital universe — Second Life, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter — has shifted not only how we spend our time but also how we construct identity.
In this article, I call for increased awareness of the self-representation, gender, labor, and intellectual property issues that surround the faculty member's homepage, arguing that faculty members construct identity online in context of the university as workplace.
As we create friendships, we inevitably construct identity frameworks that our relationships operate within.
Narrative, writes Ganz, is the process "through which individuals, communities, and nations make choices, construct identity, and inspire action.
The will to construct identity – to recognise, play with and bend the conventions of fashion to our own ends – is the prerogative of the intelligent woman.
The construct "identity" was discussed to be integrated as an important criterion for diagnosing personality disorders in DSM-5.
All construct identities were confirmed by sequencing the entire insert.
Portraits of scientists use attributes of discovery to construct identities; portraits that include esoteric accessories may fashion identities for these too.
But she directs her most cogent criticism at the particular kind of historically constructed identity that is nationalism.
It marks the celebration of difference over sameness, of liberation over surrender, of the acceptance of one's true self over one's socially constructed identity.
She had been all bottled up, contained by her new and carefully constructed identity as New York's hardworking junior senator, not a national spokeswoman.
