%0 Journal Article
%T Atheism as a Concealable Stigmatized Identity: Outness, Anticipated Stigma, and Well
%A Debra Mollen
%A Dena M. Abbott
%J The Counseling Psychologist
%@ 1552-3861
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0011000018792669
%X In a preliminary exploration of atheists using a concealable stigmatized identity framework, we investigated outness, identity magnitude, anticipated stigma, and psychological and physical well-being. Atheists (N = 1,024) in the United States, completed measures of outness, atheist identity magnitude, anticipated stigma, and psychological and physical well-being online. Consistent with predictions, we found small but significant associations between (a) anticipated stigma and well-being, (b) social components of atheist identity magnitude and outness as well as well-being, and (c) outness and well-being. A significant and moderate association was found between anticipated stigma and outness. There were significant, small indirect effects of ingroup ties, a social component of atheist identity magnitude, on psychological and physical well-being via outness; and of ingroup affect, another social component of magnitude, on psychological well-being via disclosure of atheist identity. Implications for research, practice, and training are offered
%K multiculturalism
%K well-being
%K atheism
%K religion
%K spirituality
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011000018792669