Self, Social Identity, and Physical Health: Interdisciplinary Explorations / Edition 1

by Richard D. Ashmore, Richard J. Contrada

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195127317
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	03/28/1999
Series:	Rutgers Series on Self and Social Identity Series , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Self and Social Identity: Key to Understanding Social and Behavioral Aspects of Physical Health and Disease, Richard J. Contrada and Richard D. Ashmore
Part I. Self, Social Identity, and Systems Affecting Health and Health Care
2. Self, Sickness, Somatization, and Systems of Care, John F. Kihlstrom and Lucy Canter Kihlstrom
3. The Politics of Health, Identity, and Culture, Margaret Lock
Part II. Self and Social Identity in Stress, Coping, and Physical Disease
4. Race, Stress, and Physical Health: The Role of Group Identity, David R. Williams, Michael S. Spencer, and James S. Jackson
5. Revealing, Organizing, and Reorganizing the Self in Response to Stress and Emotion, James W. Pennebaker and Kelli A. Keough
Part III. Self-Related Personality Structures, Identity Development, and Disease-Promoting Behavior
6. The Relationship between Personality and Health: What Self and Identity Have to Do With It, Suzanne C. Ouellette
7. What's Sex Got to Do With It? The Development of Sexual Identities during Adolescence, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Julia A. Graber
Part IV. Influences of Illness on Self and Identity
8. The Impact of Chronic Illness on the Self System, Howard Leventhal, Ellen Idler, and Elaine A. Leventhal
9. From the "Sick Role" to Stories of Self: Understanding the Self in Illness, Kathy Charmaz
10. Conclusion: Self, Social Identity, and the Analysis of Social and Behavioral Aspects of Physical Health and Disease, Richard D. Ashmore and Richard J. Contrada