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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Identity negotiation"”.
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Relational Identity Negotiation: Redefining the Supervisor-Subordinate Relationship
… relational identities are negotiated and why the negotiation of a relational identity is important. I find that the subordinate's efforts to modify the relational identity (i.e. relational identity negotiation) leads to key intrapersonal outcomes (i.e. relational identification and willingness to …
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The Uncorrected Self: Identity Negotiation in Juvenile Detention
… methods to understand the process of identity negotiation for juvenile detainees in a county detention center in the Midwestern United States. Participants included six male, first-time detainees, ages 12 to 16, their parents, and detention center staff and administrators. Working …
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Vulnerability and identity negotiation in childbirth: a narrative approach
… experience of vulnerability exposes a woman’s identity to subliminal messages about her body, her competence and her social positioning, while the physicality of birth is foregrounded. I believe women use the telling of their birth stories to make meaning out of their experience. To analyse the …
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Examining (my)self: An autoethnographic exploration of cultural identity negotiation
… exploration of my dialectic cultural identity negotiation. Utilizing autoethnographic inquiry through the use of autoethnographic episodic narratives and Martin and Nakayama’s (2004) notion of cultural dialectics, I explore the contradictions that occur between the identities of …
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Advancing from Outsider to Insider: A Grounded Theory of Professional Identity Negotiation
… to deepen the understanding of professional identity formation within the engineering disciplines, a grounded theory study was conducted to explore the experiences of 31 sophomore, junior, and senior level undergraduate students enrolled in a civil engineering program. Upon conducting an …
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Asian migrant women’s identity negotiation as language learners: Significant events towards imagined identities
Social identity issues come to the fore when people migrate from one place to another. Study of identity issues has been a central theme in understanding migrants. However, ambiguous and complex identity negotiation processes have been underexplored. Recently, demographic changes in Aotearoa NZ, …
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“Outsider Forever”: Black Women Multicultural Center Administrators' Identity Negotiation Experiences At Historically White Institutions
The purpose of this study was to examine the identity negotiation/shifting experiences of Black women multicultural center administrators as an outsider-within at historically white institutions in the United States. I used a critical lens to explore how eleven Black women multicultural center …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… students’ sojourning experiences impacted their identity development—namely, identity negotiation and maintenance. Additionally, I extracted six prominent findings that are specific to sojourner residents in areas with small Japanese populations that are likely apply to any sojourner living in …
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Identity Negotiation of Young Arab Muslim Women Attending College in the United States and France
… in the United States and France, negotiate their identity vis-à-vis multiple contexts of citizenship in secular state, gender, religion, culture, and race. Sixteen interviews were conducted, eight in Paris and eight in Chicago. Using the theoretical frameworks of social identity, cultural studies, …
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Beneath the Beauty: A Mixed Method Approach to Examining Identity Negotiation Among Asian Transracial Adoptees
<p>Making sense of one’s identity is an integral part of the human experience. This study examines identity negotiation and sense-making processes among individuals who have particularly complex identities: Asian transracial adoptees. In the past six decades, more than 280,000 infants and children …
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Ethnic identity negotiation through dialogical self: the case of Anywaa and Nuer evangelicals in Gambella, Ethiopia
This study explores the ethnic identity negotiation of Anywaa and Nuer Evangelical Christians in the Gambella region, Ethiopia, using the Dialogical Self Theory. The two ethnic groups are living in conflict due to different reasons such as historical narratives and cultural differences. Though they …
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The Impact of Global English in Xinjiang, China: Linguistic Capital and Identity Negotiation among the Ethnic Minority and Han Chinese Students
… maintaining their cultural and linguistic identity and making their children more socioeconomically mobile. The entry of the global language English and the recent capitalist development in China has led to English education becoming market-oriented and commodified, which has further …
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An exploration of onsite study abroad support services in Latin America for gay and lesbian students with emphasis on identity development and identity negotiation
… focus is on the challenges to the formation and negotiation of a gay or lesbian identity in a new cultural construct. The study incorporates information from identity development and identity negotiation perspectives in an effort to explain the problems that these students face. There is also an …
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Identity Negotiation, Saudi Women, and the impact of the 2011 royal decree: An investigation of the cultural, religious, and societal shifts among women in the Saudi Arabian Public Sphere
… legislative changes have impacted their personal identity within Saudi Arabian culture. The Identity Negotiation Theory (INT), in conjunction with the idea of the Public Sphere, is leveraged to understand how recent changes in the Saudi legislature promoting the inclusion of women in a variety of …
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Development and Initial Validation of the African American Workplace Authenticity Scale
… whether to outwardly express their inner racial identity at work and what impact (in)authenticity has on workplace outcomes. The lack of empirical research is likely due, in part, to the fact that there are few existing measures designed to assess Blacks' workplace authenticity. Thus, the purpose …
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Memory, Identity, and the Role of Revival: Tracing Changes in Material Culture of the Ica Society on the Peruvian South Coast (c. 1000–1600 CE)
… into the relationship between social memory, identity negotiation, and cultural notions of time. Revivals are often discussed in the context of European and Euro-American cultures from the early Modern Period to the present, but few have explored patterns of revival in the ancient Americas. …
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"""You just gotta know how to wear it"": A study of high school students' style practices"
… it examines how style practices figure in to the identity negotiations of youth. The project features the reported style practices of three students in a high school in a small urban community, examining the ways that the communicative and aesthetic natures of their style practices contribute to …
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Balancing act: an exploration of the impacts of acculturation amongst first-generation Indian immigrant youths in Canada
… and subtle racial biases based on Indian group identity. Participants valued familial and communal bonds from their home culture but struggled with rigid societal expectations and a perceived loss of social spontaneity in Canada. While most reported a sense of belonging, internal conflicts, and …
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