2025/07/09 by Amanda K. Sesko, Monica Biernat · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Employment and Welfare Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/15298868.2025.2526451
Experiences of invisibility include not being remembered, differentiated from others or given recognition for contributions. In three correlational studies, we test the intersectional invisibility hypothesis that membership in multiple stigmatized groups predicts invisibility experiences. In three U.S. samples, the number of stigmatized identities to which participants belonged predicted experienced invisibility and lower well-being, and invisibility mediated the relationship between number of stigmatized identities and well-being. In two samples, high group identification buffered the negative relationship between invisibility and well-being. Experienced invisibility was distinguished from hypervisibility, strategic invisibility, and discrimination experiences. Experienced invisibility may be part of a cluster of negative experiences and outcomes experienced by those with devalued identities, but invisibility played a distinct role in mediating the negative effect of stigmatized identities on well-being.