Identity Salience

 

Identity salience refers to the persistence of a person's identity in their self-awareness.

Some researchers write as if identity importance and identity salience are the same or highly similar constructs.

Hinton et al. (2022) consider two dimensions of identity salience as including the persistence in thought and the context. See their view in the following quote.

It is our view that this is a weakness of the literature, and that identity salience should be operationalised and measured by the extent with which the identity is perpetually thought of (i.e., chronic identity salience), but also by the extent to which the identity is only thought of when prompted within the individual’s environment (i.e., contextual identity salience).

 In the article presenting their review of the literature, they include the results of their research and a 6-item measure of Identity Salience.

Reference

Hinton, J. D. X., Koc, Y., de la Piedad Garcia, X., Kaufmann, L. M., & Anderson, J. (2022, December 4). Chronic and Contextual Identity Salience: Assessing Dual-Dimensional Salience with the Identity Salience Questionnaire (ISQ). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3hmxr

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