this research considers the recognition and evaluation of identity formation process in new towns, with special reference to hashtgerd new town in iran, located in some 65 kilometers distance on the west of tehran, the capital. the construction of hashtgerd new town and people settlement was started in more than 15 years ago. the concept of city identity, its divisions and elements, explanation...

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...

The concept of identity and its formation is one of the most basic notions in the field of social psychology. Many psychologist and sociologists have presented their theories based on this concept and the psychosocial progress of its formation in social contexts. Henry Tajfel, a prominent social psychologist, in his Social Identity Theory has divided an individual’s identity into two parts: “pe...

Identity orientations refer to the relative importance that individuals place on various identity attributes or characteristics such as race, religion, culture and language when constructing their self-definitions (Chew, 2007; Cheek, 1989). Accordingly, the present study aims at identifying the impact of identity aspects on the Iranian learners' English language achievements at Shiraz Universit...

This article attempts to study the relationship between cultural capital of the youth with their individual and collective social identities and to scrutinize the correlation between cultural capital and different types of identity. For studying these two constructs (cultural capital and individual and collective identities) Bourdieu, Jenkins and Giddens theories were consulted and for measurin...

purpose: current study aimed to predict marital instability based on identity styles and emotion regulation skills among married women in qouchan. methodology: 331 female teachers were selected using single-stage cluster random sampling and were asked to answer the identity style questionnaires (isi-6g), emotion regulation skill questionnaires (ersq) and marital instability index (mii). data we...

sam shepard is one of the foremost living american playwrights. he has always been concerned with the problem of identity, specifically the fragmented identity of man living in the postmodern era. such characterization is evident in his plays: true west, fool for love, and a lie of the mind. thus, the present article is to demonstrate the fragmented identity of lee and austin, eddie and may, an...

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...