“…Only 15 journal articles containing qualitative research related to selfidentity were retrieved from searches (excluding reviews and methodological literature), published from 2010 to 2018. The subjects of those studies included pregnant women (Chang et al, 2010;Tillotson et al, 2013), visually impaired adults (Dyakov & Radchikova, 2016;Senra et al, 2011), gay persons (Yang & Xie, 2011), college students who were adopted in their early years (Jia & Lei, 2011), family caregivers of advanced cancer patients (Ugalde et al, 2012), asexual individuals (MacNeela & Murphy, 2015), women with borderline personality (Agnew et al, 2016), ex-convicts (Gao, 2017), people with psychological and behavioral disorders Pérez-Corrales et al, 2019), and people with non-chemical forms of addiction (including internet addiction; Malakhovskaya & Dyakov, 2018). Most of these qualitative studies examined the processes, stages, and influencing factors of self-identity formation or reconstruction, and few focused on the content and characteristics of self-identity in special groups.…”