What Are Tattoos And Piercings Affect Their Sense Of Self Identity?

How a person’s experiences of having tattoos and piercings affects their sense of self identity. Using a phenomenological approach.

Abstract
Tattoos, body piercings and various forms of body ornamentation have been found not only in modern society but dating back thousands of years becoming a more and more mainstream as the years go on. How people experience living with tattoos and piercings can affect their sense of self identity. The aim of this particular study was to find out how a person living with tattoos and piercings today experiences this throughout his or her life to the present moment, focusing on how it has affected their sense of self identity. The articles used in this particular study show different areas of investigating
With many significant philosophers starting with the idea of phenomenological philosophy and reworking the original ideas. The aim is to access and encourage participants to elucidate their experience, providing as much concrete detail about the experience as possible. The rationale for this particular study was to research how a person experiences living with tattoos and piercings and how this can affect their sense of self identity. It gives an individual’s perspective and experiences, providing deeper knowledge of trying to understand their lived experiences, explaining how the participants themselves make sense of their experiences, the way they perceive, think and feel about the particular topic of living with tattoos and piercings. It uses a phenomenological psychology analysis as it aims to offer insights into how a person makes sense of a phenomenon, using a detailed description of social experience through the senses. The existing literature found and used for this study was in the form of six particular articles, where each showed different areas of quantitative research investigating tattoos and piercings, whereas the study in question investigated the participant’s
The current study was taken from a phenomenological approach whereas the articles used each show a different perspective. They look at trends through statistics (quantitative) not through experience (qualitative) as the current research does, the current research focuses on individual experiences not language or general trends, whereas the articles are more broad in their research using statistical analysis’s not embodiment. The article by Horne et al, (2007) paper is relevant to the current study as it looks into the attitudes, behaviours and interpretations of tattoos and piercings. This paper found significant gender differences, where the study in hand interviewed male and female participants to see if this would make a difference to their experiences of living with tattoos and piercings. Carmen et al (2012) brings an