As organizations become increasingly mediatized, the roles of professionals are reshaped and negotiated, and the boundaries between professional and private relationships are blurred. In this context, the extent to which one identifies with his or her organization might play an important role. This paper investigates how professionals construct their digital identities on social media sites, fo...

This study explores the link between blog use and global quality of life satisfaction as subjective well-being. This study posits that blogging enhances social interactions between online users, which will develop their own virtual social identity. It is also proposed that developed virtual social identity will motivate people to expand their online social networks which will result in their gl...

This work is mainly aimed to analyze the meaning given by young men to masculinity. By this analysis, discussions involving integral attention to them in health care field can advance. Our methodology is characterized by case study under the social sciences perspective and with hermeneutic-dialectical approach involving 19 male youngsters aged 15 to 17. About the observed results, young men ass...

identity orientations refer to the relative importance that individuals place on various identity attributes or characteristics such as race, religion, culture and language when constructing their self-definitions (chew, 2007; cheek, 1989). accordingly, the present study aims at identifying the impact of identity aspects on the iranian learners' english language achievements at shiraz universit...