Identity Threat in Early Career Professionals: A qualitative investigation on their coping mechanism repertoire in the workplace

A deeper look at ECPs and related identity threats at their workplace were made. The main focus was on finding out their repertoire was created and how they cope most effectively with identity threats. In total 16 people were interviewed. With the help of those interviews, it was discovered that ECPs experience different kinds of identity threats at their workplace. All in all, ECPs learn to cope with identity threats at the workplace. Even though it can be a struggle, in the end, all agreed that due to the threat, they somewhat became more robust and better able to communicate clearly what they want.