This thesis is concerned with expanding an understanding of human behavior related to the human mind, in relation to identity construction and sense of self. The intention is to explain societal problems related to human behavior in contemporary society, with a special focus on the rise of narcissistic perception, and narcissistic behavior on social media. The problem was identified through cited research, serving as a motivating backdrop to the aim of study. In this regard, the aim of the study is to contribute to social psychological theory formation and postulate a solipsistic behavioral viewpoint of the self in relation to identity construction.

The aim was fulfilled through idea analysis, a qualitative methodological approach, concerned with a synchronic textual analysis of ideas and ideological content in texts from three distinct theorists, namely, Hartmut Rosa’s Acceleration, modernitet och identitet- Tre essäer, George Herbert Mead’s Mind, Self and Society and Sami Pihlström’s Why solipsism matters. The texts were reexamined, and conceptual fragments from respective texts were deconstructed, combined and supplemented, in an attempt to compare the theories posited in the texts, as three ideal types. Commonalities between the respective theories were merged together to assemble a general, conceptual theory postulating a solipsistic behavioral viewpoint of self, related to identity construction.

The analysis resulted in a systematic generation of four qualitativepropositions. This led to the formulation of a conceptual definition of a new theory, namely, the solipsistic behavioral identity structure, related to contemporary identity construction and a sense of self, framed in a conceptual model comprising four dimensions. The findings offer a potential start of an enhanced clarification regarding identity construction and sense of self, involved through the complex relation between society and the human mind, sowing seeds of knowledge as a means of displaying a possibility.