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Advancing a Richer View of Identity at Work: The Role‐Based Identity Scale
Author(s) -
Welbourne Theresa M.,
Paterson Ted A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/peps.12150
Subject(s) - identity (music) , psychology , scale (ratio) , work (physics) , social psychology , industrial and organizational psychology , empirical research , social identity approach , domain (mathematical analysis) , epistemology , social identity theory , social group , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , philosophy , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , engineering , acoustics
Identity has been studied extensively in several fields including organizational behavior, sociology, and psychology. Even though there have been significant advances, 2 areas of work deserve more attention. First, most empirical investigations have looked only at 1 or 2 identities at a time despite theoretical perspectives that indicate a need to address multiple identities simultaneously. Second, limited work using identity theory has been done in the human resource management (HRM) domain. The purpose of our research is to serve as a catalyst for future work by identifying 5 work‐relevant role‐based identities and creating a parsimonious measure for each. These metrics were tested, and initial evidence of their validity is provided using 6 independent samples. The empirical results suggest that the new measures in the role‐based identity scale can be useful in representing a more realistic and richer view of identity at work by simultaneously assessing 5 distinct role‐based identities.