Identity Theory

Stets, Jan E.; Serpe, Richard T.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6772-0_2

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“…The semantic differential technique constitutes a typical approach to capturing the meaning of many identities that can all separately contribute to an individual's working self-concept (Burke and Stets 2009;Osgood et al 1957). This measurement approach considers the subjective meanings people ascribe to their current selfconcept and has been successfully used before to measure a range of different identity aspects (e.g., Carter 2013, see also Stets and Serpe 2013).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality

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Despite the proliferation of research on ethical leadership, there remains a limited understanding of how specifically the assumingly moral component of this leadership style affects employee behavior. Taking an identity perspective, we integrate the ethical leadership literature with research on the dynamics of the moral self-concept to posit that ethical leadership will foster a sense of moral identity among employees, which then inspires followers to adopt more ethical actions, such as increased organization citizenship behavior (OCB). We further argue that these identity effects should be more pronounced when leaders are perceived to be group prototypical, as their actions then speak louder to followers' sense of identity. Two studiesa scenario experiment with 138 participants and a field study with 225 employees-provided support for our hypothesized moderated mediation model. Perceived ethical leadership positively affected OCB via followers' moral identity but only under conditions of high perceived leader group prototypicality. We discuss how the identity pathway of ethical leadership can facilitate novel theorizing about moral transference. Our findings also suggest that, when hiring external ethical leaders or training internal managers, practitioners are well advised to consider that these individuals may only be effective in morally transforming followers when they are perceived as prototypical for the group.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality

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“…Here, the focus has been put on how one perceives him/herself is what is known as 'self' to that person As for the relationship between 'self' and 'identity', it has been generally accepted that James (1890) established a base on which the relationship between the two terms seem to be in complementary. James (1890) argues that one person may have many positions and titles within the society, which respond to the concept of 'selfhood' This is exactly where identities enter to the world of 'selfhood' (Stets & Burke, 2003). According to Burke (1980, p. 30), who defines identity as 'an internalized positional designation', the overall image of 'selfhood' consists of multiple identities depending on the position of the person in the society.…”

Section: Self and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2) An individual's identity is made up of many sub-identities that have different levels of salience, prevalence, and longevity that manifest in different contexts (Stets & Serpe, 2013).…”

Section: Pragmatic Identity Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Psycho-Pragmatic Study of Self-Identity of Kurdish EFL Learners in Kurdistan Region

Mahmood¹,

Hassan²

2018

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This paper is an extract from a PhD dissertation on the impacts of learning English on the self-identity of Kurdish EFL learners. Language is a distinctive feature of human being. Similarly, identity is considered as a sign humans are recognized by. So, scrutinizing the relationship between these two related components of human life is revealing. Most of the research papers in this area focus on how language is used as a tool to express someone's identity. However, this research focuses on how the process of learning English makes possible changes, if any, in the learners' self-identity. A Likert-questionnaire of 30 questions is given to 150 EFL learners from three main universities to understand the differences that might happen in the learners' self-identity as a result of learning English. Finally, some conclusions are drawn based on the collected data and the references are documented.

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“…Every individual possesses multiple identities because every individual identifies him or herself with many social categories and has more than one social role. Each role has a set of meanings to which the individual attaches, and rules on how he or she should think, feel, and behave (Hogg & Terry, 2001;Stets & Serpe, 2013). Considering the extreme differences in gender-typed and leader-typed roles, this often results in role incongruity or identity conflict (Karelaia & Guillén, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social identity proposes that the identity that individuals attach to themselves is related to the social roles to which they are assigned (Hogg & Terry, 2001;Karelaia & Guillén, 2014;Stets & Serpe, 2013). Every individual possesses multiple identities because every individual identifies him or herself with many social categories and has more than one social role.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%