Everyday Confrontation of Discrimination: The Well-Being Costs and Benefits to Women over Time

Taking action against discrimination has positive consequences for well-being (e.g., Cocking & Drury, 2004) butmost of this research has focused on collective actions and has used methodologies assessing one point in time.This study therefore used a diary methodology to examine how women’s everyday confrontations ofdiscrimination would affect measures of subjective and psychological well-being, and how these relationshipswould change over time....