Professional women’s identity integration—the perceived compatibility between work and gender identities—plays a role in how task or relationship information is processed. Seventy female business school students were primed with either their professional or their gender identity. Business women with higher identity integration showed an assimilation effect to the primed cue. Specifically, they ...

This article reports on an ethnographic study performed in a large and distributed, knowledge intensive ICT company. It gives an in-depth account of the introduction of virtual communities in this organization and what happened afterwards. When confronted with organizational change ideas such as virtual community, people make sense of and appropriate these ideas to make them ‘their own.’ We...

The paper reports a study that investigated the construction of a common identity in an online Italian forum of psychologists based on asynchronous CMC. Discourse analysis was carried out on 20 discussions, and three Interpretative Repertoires were identified: (i) Professional Boundaries, (ii) disempowered psychology and (iii) psychology and health, which refer to three recurrent modalities of ...

Increasingly, information and communication technology (ICT) uses are transforming professional activities and interactions in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about professional identity. In this paper, we consider how ICT uses by research scientists in oceanography and marine biology shape professional identity. Empirical data are drawn from an ongoing study of ICT use in collabora...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to describe chiropractic professional identity as espoused by the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. DISCUSSION Professional identity is a construct that begins formation prior to career selection, can be considered the backbone of health care education, and has been linked to career success. Los Angeles College of Chiropractic's professional ident...

Abstract The process of envisioning the future is central to teachers’ identity construction, but different environments create distinct sociocultural conditions for process. This qualitative study drawing on visual-textual methods compares Finnish and Brazilian student desired feared professional futures. Two perspectives identities were detected: a desire status meaningfulness. results reveal...

BACKGROUND Although professional identity development is an important concept in medical education, the process has not been well-investigated from a student perspective. PURPOSE This study examines the metaphorical images formulated by first grade medical students in Turkey to describe physicians in the context of establishing a professional identity, along with its limitations. METHOD Par...