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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"occupational identity"”.
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Occupational Identity Assessment Among Middle and Late Adolescents
<p><em>Problem.</em> Research on James Marcia's identity statuses has been directed toward the overall problem of identity, but not toward the specific area of occupational identity. The major purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument to assess Marcia1s Identity Statuses …
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Influence of occupational socialization on occupational identity and the perspectives and practices of the applied professor
Studies of occupational socialization and occupational identity reveal that the pre-college years (acculturation stage of occupational socialization) have the most profound and lasting impact on individuals in medicine, law, law enforcement and physical education. The purpose of this study was to …
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Identifying the factors influencing the occupational identity of people journeying from adolescent anorexia nervosa toward well-being
Occupational Identity describes the way occupation (doing) interacts with a person’s identity, and includes the constructs of occupational identity disruption, discrepancy, and construction. It is not well understood within the field of eating disorders. This project was conducted with people …
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The impact of parental influences on college students’ occupational identity development: The case of Singaporean college students in the U.S.
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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A study of waiters' occupational identity and its effect on staff turnover within the context of Michelin-starred restaurants in London
… of the relationship between waiters’ occupational identity and its antecedents. The consequences of occupational identity on work engagement and employee turnover are explored. The development of occupational identity includes progressing, transforming, conserving, emphasising or …
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Cultural-historical investigations into the dialectics of skills development implementation and occupational identity in the informal construction Small and Micro Enterprise workplace
This study explores the development of identity and agency on the part of young construction workers and work-seekers within the informal workplace environment of the South African post-apartheid construction industry. The study provides an exploration of the contradictions manifested in, and …
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No longer fledglings but struggling to fly: peer support workers' experiences of forming an occupational identity within an urban NHS trust: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… user (SU) involvement by using their shared identity to improve mental health, well-being and confidence (Gillard et al., 2013; Simpson et al., 2018; Davidson et al., 2012). Rationale: With increased numbers of PSWs employed within the NHS, it is essential to understand how PSWs …
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Understanding the BlackBerry : negotiating connectivity in different organizational worlds
… potential for wireless email in terms of their occupational identity, daily work practices and organizational context. I collected longitudinal qualitative data from the in-house legal counsel and U.S. mobile sales in a mid-sized footwear and apparel company to understand the process through …
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A Structural Equation Model of the Economic and Lifestyle Motives of Small-Scale Farmers in Illinois
… of themselves as "farmer", even though their occupational identity is with their nonfarm employment. Farm background and life cycle stage are hypothesized to be important determinants of both economic and lifestyle motives for farming.
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The Horse: A Driving Force for the Lifestyle of Grooms
<p>The fundamental components of co-occupational relationships between humans and animals and their impact on occupational identity is an area for exploration in the study of occupation. Evaluating the lives of persons whose daily occupations involve working with animals contributes to the …
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Historical shifts in knowledge, skill and identity in the South African plant baking industry : implications for curriculum
… the corresponding shifts in knowledge, skill and identity of production supervisors. By examining how the work organisation of the bakeries has changed, as well as the adaptations of knowledge, skill and identity, the aim is to draw implications for the development of production supervisors in the …
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"If you don't laugh you'll cry": the occupational humor of white American prison workers and social workers
… fieldwork, this dissertation compares narrative occupational humor of white American social workers to that of white American prison workers, concluding that both occupational groups use humor, both performed and oral, to negotiate conflict between work and home, to initiate new employees, to …
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Beyond occupational differences : the importance of cross-cutting demographics and dyadic toolkits for collaboration in a US hospital
… in status, meanings, and expertise across occupational groups, but they have failed to consider how the demography of the setting affects cross-occupational collaboration. Our 12-month ethnographic study of two units in a US hospital demonstrates the importance of cross-cutting demographics …
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Women's move from employment to self-employment : understanding the transition
… the analysis emphasizes the importance of occupational identity, the focus of question 5 above.</p> <p>As regards the second question, in seeking to understand respondents' decisions to leave their organisations, it is necessary to examine both personal and organisational factors, not as a …
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Practice in a dispersed professional community : a case study of associate lecturers at the Open University
… are between these and the process of occupational identity-building. It also identifies other important facets of the working environment, such as the institution, faculty and department. The context of working as a part-time lecturer with the Open University is examined, and …
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Managerialism as a professionalising catalyst for the front-line practitioner community of New Zealand's Department of Conservation
… imperatives and the concomitant loss of occupational autonomy have received very little rigorous qualitative analysis. This study addresses that shortfall, taking as its cue a key question in the sociology of ‘profession’—what arouses or subdues the inclination of bureaucratised …
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You, AFFIRMED: a gender-affirming occupational therapy program for top surgery
… The transition process can impact a person’s occupational identity, occupational competence, and overall occupational well-being (Bar et al., 2016). Although deficits in occupational performance and satisfaction have been reported within transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) populations …
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Nihil sine carbo: politics, labor, and the coal industry in the towns of the Jiu Valley, 1850-1999.
… ranks of miners in the valley maintained their occupational identity but fit this within a larger working-class identity — defining such with terms and concepts borrowed from the Hungarian socialist movement. The coal industry and its workers, defining themselves both against the value of coal …
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