Professional Identity Development in Undergraduate AEC Women

A longitudinal grounded theory study analyzes seven rounds of interviews with 78 undergraduate women in architecture, engineering, and construction from five U.S. institutions. Authored by Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu and published under CC-BY-4.0, the dataset was last updated in June 2026. It presents a novel 'From Isolating to Blending Contrasting Self-Attributes' theory and the concept of 'womfessionalization'.

Use Cases

• Analyzing professional identity development trajectories based on longitudinal interview data
• Studying mechanisms for resolving gendered tensions based on the 'womfessionalization' concept
• Modeling the integration of contrasting self-attributes based on the IBCS grounded theory
• Investigating collectivist resilience in STEM based on the described resilience mechanism

Strengths

• Longitudinal data from seven interview rounds provides a process-oriented view
• Sample includes 78 undergraduate women from five U.S. institutions
• Constructivist grounded theory methodology offers a nuanced, holistic understanding

Limitations

• Dataset is a 22.2 KB DOCX file, indicating limited raw data scope
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the text
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the five selected U.S. schools

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Constant comparative analysis of longitudinal interview data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 04:27:32

Geography

Five U.S. institutions