Personal Identity and its Impact on Acceptance of Science Work in Aotearoa/New Zealand

This essay reflects on how an aspect of personal identity negatively and positively affects the acceptance of science work in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. The essay discusses how conscientiousness, as an aspect of personal identity, positively influences the acceptance of science work in New Zealand.

Running head: PERSONAL IDENTITY 1
Personal Identity
Name
Institutional Affiliation

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PERSONAL IDENTITY
Personal identity describes who you are, and it is a sense of yourself as a distinct
individual. Personal identity relies heavily on your age and situations. Positive identity
acknowledges weaknesses and strengths and demonstrates positive values (Horowitz, 2012).
Positive identity forms a purpose in individual life and meaningful relationships. Personal
identity also helps a person to avoid unhealthful high-risk behaviors. In this essay, I will reflect
on how an aspect of my own personal identity negatively and positively affects the acceptance of
my science work in the contemporary Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
The personal identity aspect that will positively affect my work’s acceptance is
conscientiousness. This aspect refers to the personality trait of being diligent or careful. It means
the desire to perform a person’s work or duty thoroughly or well and take obligations seriously.
In my work, I have always shown conscientiousness by doing thorough and proper research in
my work before I present my findings to the people. In my discipline, we are always assigned the
task to undertake scientific research. Thus, I always conduct thorough research to support the
recommendations because, without empirical and evidence, no one will accept the findings
(Dunk et al., 2017).
As an aspect of my personal identity, conscientiousness has positively influenced how the
contemporary New Zealanders accept my science work (Stavrova, Ehlebracht & Fetchenhauer,
2016). This is because I have been conscientious in my work and achieve quality via thorough
and proper research. Thus, my audiences tend to accept the work I do because they associate it to
expertise based on in-depth research and analysis. I always do a detailed analysis of the data I
collect to present them in an easily understandable manner. This makes it readily accepted since I
usually accompany the findings and recommendations with tangible empirical evidence.

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With the extensive evidence I present to the people, my readers usually get it easy to
compare my work with the other people’s work to make an informed decision. I have also been
accompanying my findings through examples which have always buttressed my arguments. This
means that I remain conscious of what I present to the people. Application of conscientiousness
in my work ensures that people can compare the evidence I give to them with their own research
and confirm whether I am correct or not. This has always guaranteed that I have a reliable and
trustworthy finding which has helped work to be accepted.
In conclusion, my conscience has also been linked to morality and sense of wrong or
right. This has further made people to view me as a moral and right individual and hence readily
accept my findings (Biglan & Hayes, 2016). This is because in every work I do, I tend to be
organized and efficient rather than being disorderly and easy-going.
References
Biglan, A., & Hayes, S. C. (2016). Functional contextualism and contextual behavioral
science. The Wiley handbook of contextual behavioral science, 37-61.

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Dunk, R. D., Petto, A. J., Wiles, J. R., & Campbell, B. C. (2017). A multifactorial analysis of
acceptance of evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 10(1), 4.
Horowitz, M. J. (2012). Self-identity theory and research methods. Journal of Research
Practice, 8(2).
Stavrova, O., Ehlebracht, D., & Fetchenhauer, D. (2016). Belief in scientific–technological
progress and life satisfaction: The role of personal control. Personality and Individual
Differences, 96, 227-236.