Teacher professional identity is widely acknowledged as a multi-dimensional dynamic evolving concept contributing to teachers’ self-perception about their professional roles. This qualitative study aimed to explore how different instructional settings of teaching English as a foreign language in Iran impacted on teachers’ professional identities in a comparative way. To this end, 25 English tea...

Background: Neuroticism is one of the serious mental health problems of people. No study has been conducted on the impact of identity issues in the treatment of neurotic people. Objectives: This study aims to formulate, design, and investigate the effect of identity-based psychodrama educational program on identity styles and neuroticism. Materials & Methods: This research was a quasi-experim...

abstract norton’s (1995) investment hypothesis in l2 learning that l2 learners who cherish and foresee a richer personality for themselves in their l2 context would thrive more diligently and consequently would both enrich their personality and achieve a higher proficiency in their new language was investigated in this study in the community of iranian efl students. the integration and mutual r...

Professional development and professional identity of English language teachers have usually been explored separately in the research agenda. However, there might be a nexus of relationships between professional identity and professional development in the context of English language teaching. This study, therefore, explored how professional identity might contribute to professional development...

The Relationship between Psycho-Social Health and National-Religious Identity among Yazdi High School Students M. Paarsaamehr, Ph.D. V. Asghari Yengjeh To measure the relationship between psycho-social health and national-religious identity among Yazdi high school students a sample of 354 students was selected using a cluster sampling method. Measures used to assess the constr...

this research examines the casual relationship between parenting styles with identity processing styles and identity commitment in adolescent girls. 391 female students in third grade of high school completed two measures: perceived parenting style scale ( bury, 1991) and identity style inventory( berzonsky, 1997). two structural equation modeling for fathers and mothers  had good fit with data...

Research exploring the powerful links between leadership and identity has burgeoned in recent years but cohered around two distinct approaches. on leadership, main focus of this special issue, sees as a group process that centers leaders’ ability to represent, advance, create embed social they share with collectives lead—a sense “us group”. leader is advanced by individuals who have well-develo...