The main statements of the organizational-role concept of civic identity formation of an individual, which explains the phenomenon of civic identity, the typology of civic identity, as well as the process of its formation – the stages and psychological mechanisms of appearance, development and establishment are given.
Civic identity is understood as a kind of organizational identity, which is a value-semantic experience of a person's identification as a citizen of the state and manifests itself in institutional, community, and individual dimensions; it ensures the integrity and durability of ideas about oneself as a citizen even when civic values/orientations change and act as a psychological regulator of civic behavior. The formation of civic identity is interpreted as a continuous-discrete process of a person acquiring a civic identity from the proto-identity to the state of its maturity, which is characterized by the full disclosure and realization of the functions of the civic identity.
Three dimensions of civic identity are characterized: institutional (relevant to the citizen's relationship with the state as an organization and identification of oneself as a member of this organization), community (self-identification with fellow citizens), and individual (self-identification with the role of a citizen). Taking into account the possibility of different actualizations of the mentioned dimensions in the personality, types of civic identity are justified and described based on appropriate combinations.
The successive stages of the formation process of civic identity (systemic-perceptual, community-normative, individual-role) are substantiated, at each of which the basic formations of civic identity (proto-identity, reproductive civic identity, productive civic identity) are logically established. Proto-identity is the realization of the prototype of a citizen, reproductive is the reproduction of a citizen's standard, and productive is based on learning the role of a citizen. The concept of delay and deformation of civic identity development is introduced, which is connected with the peculiarities of the individual role stage. Assimilation and implementation of the role of a citizen can lead to both constructive relations with the state and surrogate relations, which lead to various psychological games-manipulations. Game interaction captures destructive types of civic behavior (shifting responsibility onto the state; social and organizational parasitism; self-affirmation at the expense of fellow citizens, etc.).
The regularities of civic identity formation are explained by the involvement of psychological mechanisms that ensure its "launch" and the accumulation of quantitative changes and qualitative transformations of the said identity. The psychological mechanisms of the formation of civic identity are the internalization of the contents of citizenship, imitation of models of civic behavior (mechanisms of the emergence of civic identity), individuation and exteriorization of the contents of citizenship (mechanisms of the development of civic identity); implementation of the individual experience of interaction with the state and its interpretation (mechanisms of establishing civic identity).
The result of the complete formation of civic identity is the state of its maturity, which is not always achieved by an individual. In other cases, identity development is fixed in immature forms of civiс conformity or civiс protest, amorphousness, or destructive role identifications, leading to playful and scripted relations between the citizen and the state. Basic approaches to psychological counseling of persons with "game" deformations of civic identity have been developed and implemented in psychological practice.
The prospects for further research and implementation of the organizational-role concept of civic identity formation in social practice are substantiated.
