Self, Social Identity, and Physical Health (eBook, PDF)

Interdisciplinary Explorations
Redaktion: Contrada, Richard J.; Ashmore, Richard D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Despite tremendous progress in understanding the human body as a biological mechanism, researchers are finding that many aspects of physical health are strongly linked to a person's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and to features of the sociocultural environment. This interdisciplinary volume, the newest in the Rutgers Series on Self and Social Identity, provides a survey of this research, emphasizing the connections between health and an individual's sense of self. Drawing on psychology, sociology and anthropology, the collection examines the health-related effects both of broad social forces and of individual experiences. 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 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. As a whole, the collection provides a wide ranging survey of existing work on how self and health are linked and is a valuable source of ideas for future research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198029298
• Artikelnr.: 38134233

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Self and social Identity: Key to Understanding Social
and Behavioural Aspects of Physical Health and Disease
* Part I: Self, Social Identity, and Systems Affecting Health and
Health Care
* 2: Self, Sickness, and Systems of Care
* 3: The Politics of Health, Identity, and Culture
* Part II: Self and Identity in Stress, Coping, and Physical Disease
* 4: Race, Stress, and Physical Health: The Role of Group Identity
* 5: Revealing, Organizing, and Reorganizing the Self in Response to
Stress and Emotion
* 6: The Relationship Between Personality and Health: What Self and
Identity Have To Do With It
* 7: What's Sex Got To Do With It? The Development of Sexual Identity
During the Adolescent Years
* Part IV: Influences of Illness on Self and Identity
* 8: The Impact of Chronic Illness on the Self System
* 9 From the "Sick Role" to Stories of Self: Understanding the Self in
Illness
* Conclusion: Self, Social Identity, and the Social and Behavioural
Analysis of Physical Health and Disease: Problems and Prospects