This research was conducted in collaboration with Verónica Benet-Martínez, Dora Bianchi, Lisa De Luca, and Liliyana Mbeve, and was initiated during the EARA–EASP–EAPP meeting “Building Inclusive Identities”.
Many thanks to Elisabetta Crocetti and Monica Rubini for organizing this meeting!

📊 Our results highlight the central role of inclusive in-group norms and affirming social environments for individuals navigating multiple marginalized identities.

🔎 We examined how religious sexual minorities navigate potentially conflicting identities, and how risk factors (perceived rejection from in-groups, discrimination) and protective factors (in-group identification, social support) jointly shape identity integration and well-being.

Many thanks to my co-authors @yaraalnajjar.bsky.social
@cbadea.bsky.social
Verónica Benet-Martínez
@spyasin.bsky.social
for their valuable help in making this work possible!

📊 Results showed that identity affirmation interventions (vs. control) and identity integration increased well-being.
However, we found little evidence that dual-identity affirmation was more effective than single-identity affirmation.

🔍 We examined whether affirming a dual identity provides additional benefits compared to affirming a single identity.
With a sample of 401 LGB-religious individuals, we tested the effects of dual- vs. single-identity affirmation interventions on well-being and collective action intentions.

It was great to meet Monica Biernat, the post-doctoral supervisor of my former PhD student @beatricesternberg.bsky.social

🔍 We found that strong identification with ingroups, along with high social support, played a key role in fostering identity integration, life satisfaction, and collective action intentions.

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