Self, Social Identity, and Physical Health
Interdisciplinary Explorations
Herausgeber: Contrada, Richard J.; Ashmore, Richard D.
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The aim of this volume is to examine how our understanding of self and social identity is linked to physical health and disease. The book is organized around four topics: the self-regulation model used by health psychologists as well as the cultural system through which the individual experiences illness and its treatment; stress, emotion, and coping; behaviour patterns that enhance or damage an individual's health; and the impact of physical illness on the person who assumes the "sick role".
Part I examines the diverse systems involved, moving from the biological and psychological systems in the individual to such societal systems as language, politics, economics, and health care. Part II focuses on stress and emotion and includes an Part II focuses on stress and emotion and includes an extensive discussion of race related stress and of the beneficial effects of disclosing and talking about individual traumatic events. Part III addresses health in the context of personality and development, proposing a multilevel view of personality and describing the emergence of sexual identities during adolescence. The final part then looks at the other side of the self-health relationship by examining the effects of illness on one's sense of self