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. Some differences in patterns of results due to cultural context in Many studies have shown a positive link between multiple social identities and well-being. However, these studies have usually examined few selected identities in this context. We examine many more social identities, expecting positive relationships between the number of social identities and well-being. Moreover, we explore the number of social identities in relation to perceived discrimination in the context of Rejection-Identification Model. RIM has been tested mostly on identification with the specific discriminated group, while we argue that identifying additionally with other groups may also be beneficial for a discriminated individual’s well-being. We explore these issues with data on 226 students from four different countries: Poland, the U.S. Mexico and the UK. The results show that the identity selection method brought higher mean number of meaningful social identifications reported by participants than open-ended questions in previous studies. Our study confirmed that having more meaningful identities is connected to higher satisfaction with life. Moreover, perceived discrimination, which is connected to lower satisfaction with life and lower physical well-being, is also correlated with having more meaningful social identities. It suggests that not only identifying with the discriminated group but having many meaningful social identifications potentially serves as a buffer from the harmful effects of perceived discrimination. However, occasionally feelings of discrimination are connected to lower social identifications, suggesting the mechanism of self-distancing from rejecting four countries were also observed.