Huff, J. and Smith, Jonathan A. and Jesiek, B. and Zoltowski, C. and Oakes, W. (2019) Identity in engineering adulthood: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of early-career engineers in the United States as they transition to the workplace. Emerging Adulthood 7 (6), pp. 451-467. ISSN 2167-6968.
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Abstract
Prior research has established emerging adulthood to be a time characterized by robust identity explorations in professional and non-professional domains. However, extant literature provides little contextual explanations in relation to how these identity explorations are experienced by early-career professionals. This manuscript presents idiographic findings from a qualitative study that used interpretative phenomenological analysis on interviews with seven engineering students as they transitioned to their respective workplaces. These findings describe how the participants experienced a strong sense of commitment to their career identities while also exploring features of their identities that were unrelated to their careers. Additionally, we discuss how women participants also experienced a gendered form tension in managing their career and family roles. In sum, this manuscript contributes detailed insight regarding coherence and complexity of personal identity development as lived by early-career professionals.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Jonathan Smith |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2018 12:51 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2025 10:13 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/22463 |
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