health 2.2

Identity:

The unique combination of characteristics, beliefs, experiences, and roles that defines who a person is.

Personal Identity:

How you see yourself as an individual, including your interests, goals, personality, and values.

Core Values:

The principles that are most important to you and guide your choices, actions, and relationships.

Beliefs:

Ideas that you accept as true or meaningful and that help shape how you view the world.

Personality:

The combination of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that makes a person unique.

Physical Identity:

The part of identity connected to physical characteristics, abilities, and appearance.

Social Identity:

The part of identity connected to your relationships, social roles, and membership in different groups.

Cultural Identity:

Your connection to the traditions, language, customs, values, or history of a cultural group.

Ethnicity:

A person’s connection to a group that shares cultural, historical, or national characteristics.

Race:

A social category often based on physical traits, such as skin color. Racial categories are created by societies rather than being clear biological divisions

Religion:

An organized system of beliefs and practices that may involve faith, worship, traditions, and moral values.

Spirituality:

A personal sense of meaning or connection to something larger than yourself. It may or may not involve religion.

Tradition:

A belief, activity, or custom passed from one generation to another.

Custom:

A usual way of behaving or doing something within a family, group, or culture.

Role Model:

A person whose behavior, qualities, or accomplishments influence or inspire others

Identity Formation:

The ongoing process of discovering and developing who you are as you grow and gain new experiences.

Expression:

The ways people communicate who they are through words, art, clothing, interests, behavior, or other choices.

Belonging:

Feeling accepted, valued, supported, and included within a group or community.

Stereotype:

An oversimplified or unfair belief about all members of a particular group.

Bias:

A preference for or against a person, group, or idea that may not be based on facts or fairness.

Respect:

Valuing and treating people with dignity, including people whose identities or experiences differ from your own

Inclusion:

Creating conditions in which people feel welcomed, supported, and able to participate.

Diversity:

The presence of people with different identities, backgrounds, abilities, experiences, and perspectives.

Sexual Orientation:

A term describing whom a person may be emotionally, romantically, or physically attracted to.

Heterosexual or Straight:

Describes someone primarily attracted to people of a different gender.

Gay:

Describes someone primarily attracted to people of the same gender.

Lesbian:

Commonly describes a woman who is primarily attracted to women.

Bisexual: Describes someone who may be attracted to more than one gender.

Describes someone who may be attracted to more than one gender.

Pansexual:

Describes someone whose attraction may include people of any gender.

Asexual:

Describes someone who experiences little or no sexual attraction.