Impact of early career teachers' professional identity tensions

This study gains insight into impact of professional identity tensions in terms of affective appraisal and behavioral response. Data consisted of 126 semi-structured reflective journals from early career teachers collected during one school year. Affective appraisals were ‘low’ (no impact on daily functioning, short occurrence), ‘moderate’ (reasonable impact for a couple of days) or ‘high’ (negative impact on work and private life, leading to...