The question of self and identity has its roots in historical philosophy. The first related mention of the term identity could be traced in Descartes'' (1637/2000) popular statement, "I think, therefore, I am" (as cited in Hammack, 2015, p.13), which implied a higher process of thinking about self. Early psychologists regarded meaning making of self to perceiving unity in events; as they emphasized greatly on the role of remembering, seeking for meaning and relations, similarity or variations in explaining identity as a phenomenon (Hammack, 2015). In the review of how early theorists conceptualized important identity theories from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, James (1980, as cited in Hammock, 2015) who viewed personal identity as, "consciousness of personal sameness" (p. 13), and Meads (1934, as cited in Hammock, 2015), who coined the term ''''conversation of gestures'''' (p. 14), were found to focus largely on the personal and social construction of self respect
