Identity Threats, Identity Work and Elite Professionals
研究英国职业橄榄球联盟俱乐部的精英运动员如何利用职业身份威胁（如职业生涯短暂、受伤和表现压力）来构建理想的职业和男性身份，揭示了身份威胁作为身份工作灵活资源的作用。
Elite professionals opportunistically employ threats to their work identities to author preferred selves. Predicated on understandings that identities are subjectively available to people as in-progress narratives, and that these are often insecure fabrications, we investigate the identity work of members of a UK-based professional Rugby League club. The research contribution we make is to demonstrate that professionals use identity threats as flexible resources for working on favoured identities. We show that rugby players authored identity threats centred on the shortness of their careers, injury and performance, and how these were appropriated (made their own) by men to develop desired occupational and masculine identities. In so doing, we also contribute to debates on how professionals’ identity discourse is an expression of agency framed within relations of power.