Navigating identity threat: the role of identity salience and centrality in predicting attitude advocacy online

• Main Author: Pow, Jonathan Weng Keong
• Other Authors: Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165829
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When faced with a threat to one’s identity, people are motivated to defend against that threat. This defence response can manifest in different ways depending on the context. For instance, identity threat is known to lead to different patterns of ego-defensive responding depending on how central the...