The existing research on identity work is primarily focused on individual identities and responses to identity threats. We seek to broaden the identity work literature in several ways. First, in order to take into consideration multiple identities, we integrate identity work into the intrapersonal identity network approach, which focuses on the relationships – both ties and hierarchical salience - between identities, in order to theorize about how making changes to one identity impacts the relationships between identities. Second, our theorizing provides the identity work literature with new insights about identity threats and opportunities and how responses to these differing appraisals impacts the identity network. Third, we distinguish between identity work that is done on one identity and what we call inter-identity work, which involves making changes to the relationships between identities. Ultimately, we provide a framework that takes into consideration the multiplicity of individuals’ identities, and explores how the intrapersonal identity network is impacted as individuals respond to identity threats and opportunities through both identity work and inter-identity work.

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不仅仅是我的部分的总和：应对身份机会和威胁的身份工作的人际网络方法

现有的身份工作研究主要集中在个人身份和对身份威胁的反应上。我们寻求以多种方式拓宽身份工作文献。首先，为了考虑多重身份，我们将身份工作整合到内省身份网络方法中，该方法侧重于身份之间的关系——包括联系和等级显着性——以便理论化对一个身份的改变如何影响身份之间的关系。其次，我们的理论为身份工作文献提供了关于身份威胁和机会以及对这些不同评估的反应如何影响身份网络的新见解。第三，我们区分在一个身份上完成的身份工作和我们所谓的身份间工作，这涉及改变身份之间的关系。最终，我们提供了一个考虑到个人身份多样性的框架，并探讨了当个人通过身份工作和身份间工作应对身份威胁和机会时，内部身份网络如何受到影响。