Self Social Identity and Physical Health

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 anPart 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