Over the past 125 years, the peer-review professions in the United States have gradually negotiated stable social contracts with the public in both custom and the law. These social contracts are tacit agreements among society and members of each peer-review profession that regulate their relationship with each other—in particular, agreements regarding the profession’s control over professional ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among Iranian EFL university lecturers’ professional and institutional identity, and their teaching efficacy. To this end, 100 EFL university lecturers from different branches of Islamic Azad Universities, including Kermanshah, Isfahan and Hamedan, took part in the study by completing the Professional Identity Questionnaire, the Inst...

Professional socialization is a complex process that leads to the professional identity. While several studies have focused on identity of physicians and nurses, few analyzed this aspect among dieticians. Furthermore, those did not consider influence sociocultural norms. The aim study was analyze construction Brazilian, French Spanish A qualitative methodology based semi-structured interviews s...

BACKGROUND Researchers have yet to fully explore and adequately measure Professional Identity (PI) in nursing. OBJECTIVES This paper aims to examine the psychometrics of five measures of PI and compare these results in first and third year nursing students. As a consequence of utilising multiple self-assessed survey tools this study also examines common methods bias. DESIGN The study utilis...

Popular media have played a crucial role in the construction, representation, reproduction, and transmission of stereotypes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals, yet little is known about how these stereotypes influence STEM identity formation. Media images of STEM professionals may be important sources of information about STEM and may be particularly salie...