abstract background: being a nurse is more than just a series of business activities and skills. in fact, it is a part of the process of socialization, which is internalization and development of professional identity. professional socialization is necessary for involving the students in professional practices. thus, the purpose of this qualitative research was to increase the understanding of ...

Professional identity plays an important role in career development. Although many studies have examined professional identity, differences in cognitive-processing biases between Chinese student teachers with strong and weak professional identity are poorly understood. The current study adopted Tversky's social-cognitive experimental paradigm to explore cognitive-processing biases in Chinese st...

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...

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...

Because of the importance of instructor success in the adequacy of instruction and learning, this study aimed to explain the impact of two factors, namely language teachers’ professional identity and autonomy, with respect to their success. To this end, 190 Iranian EFL teachers, including university lecturers and language institute teachers, participated in this study. As for data collection, t...