Identity

Abstract

There is much to suggest that our feelings about ourselves are implicated in our health (e.g., Demakakos et al. 2008; Dressler 1991a:618–19; Taylor and Stanton 2007:379–81, 384). Or, to rephrase this in the specific terms of my argument, I anticipate that people’s identity contents, depending on the nature of their subsequent experiences, may ameliorate or exacerbate the extent to which stress has harmful effects on their minds and bodies.