Self, Social Identity, and Physical Health

Interdisciplinary Explorations
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-512731-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

The goal 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: 1. the self-regulation model used by health psychologists as well as the cultural system through which the individual experiences illness and its treatment, 2. stress, emotion, and coping, 3. behaviour patterns that enhance or damage an individual's health, and 4. the impact of physical illness on the person who assumes the "sick role".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Contrada, Richard J.

Ashmore, Richard D.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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