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  • Professional Studies

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  • Professional socialization significantly influences an individual's conduct and ethics.
  • Ambiguity surrounding the concept necessitates a clearer definition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To clarify the concept of professional socialization.
  • To reduce ambiguities associated with professional socialization.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative research employing Walker and Avant's eight-step concept analysis.
  • Extensive literature review of 780 articles, with 21 selected for analysis.

Main Results:

  • Defined professional socialization as a nonlinear, continuous, interactive, transformative, personal, psychosocial, and self-reinforcing process.
  • Identified antecedents (profession, community of practice) and consequences (professional identity, development).
  • Highlighted the influence of individual, organizational, and interactional factors.

Conclusions:

  • Proposed an analytical definition of professional socialization aligned with interactionism.
  • Emphasized the process's impact on professional identity and development.
  • Suggested findings can inform educational interventions to facilitate professional socialization.