Prominence (or salience), valence, and amount of integration utilizing the individual’s other identities can be highly relevant to stress Prominence of identification may exacerbate stress because “the more a person identifies with, is focused on, or has very developed self schemas in a life that is particular, the more would be the psychological effect of stressors that happen for the reason that domain” (Thoits, 1999, p. 352).

In being released models, as well as in some types of racial identification, there is a propensity to see minority identification as prominent and ignore other personal and social identities (Cross, 1995; de Monteflores & Schultz, 1978; Eliason, 1996). Continue reading →