Self, Social Identity, and Physical Health: Interdisciplinary Explorations

By Richard J. Contrada

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195127315
• ISBN13: 9780195127317
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"