Professional Identity

Roles: professional, role, credential, legitimacy, belonging

The sense of self derived from one’s work, expertise, and professional community membership. As a target domain, professional identity borrows from citizenship (belonging, membership), performance (role, mask), and territory (claiming a place, defending turf). The domain foregrounds the tension between felt competence and external validation, and between authentic self-expression and role conformity.

Applied To This Frame (1)

• social-presentation → Impostor Syndrome