BACKGROUND Coronary heart disease is an incurable condition. The only approach known to slow its progression is healthy lifestyle change and concordance with cardio-protective medicines. Few people fully succeed in these daily activities so potential health improvements are not fully realised. Little is known about peoples' experiences of managing lifestyle change. The aim of this study was to ...

Pain is an experience including physiological and psychological factors. We assume that emotions may be elicited and increased through self-perceived role identity and that change of role identity alters quality and intensity of pain perception. We used role-play strategies to assess whether pain can be better tolerated whenever, in an unavoidable and unpleasant context, role identity confers p...

An emphasis on supporting and maintaining self-identity in people who have dementia for as long as possible has gone hand in hand with the revitalisation of dementia interventions, services and empowerment. However, recognition of the need for change, adaptation and personal growth is as necessary when living with dementia as at any other time in people's lives. Those who care for people with d...

This article offers a dialogue with Mukund Lath. It is comprised of three parts: Part One introduces Lath’s body work. The second and third parts are jugalbandī, duet or Lath through his essays “Identity Through Necessary Change” (2003/2018) “Thoughts on Svara Rasa: Music as Thinking/Thinking Music” (2016). In the first essay, discusses question identity self, suggesting classical Indian music,...

Identity process theory proposes that adjustment to aging can be conceptualized as involving the three processes of identity assimilation (maintaining self-consistency), identity accommodation (making changes in the self), and identity balance (maintaining a sense of self but changing when necessary). Measures of the identity processes and self-consciousness were administered to a community sam...

Immigrant youth differ in their adaptation, which is judged based on how well they deal with developmental and acculturative tasks. While immigrant adolescents are faced with the realities of two different cultures, they also have to master age-salient tasks, such as selfefficacy and identity development. To get a better insight into the interplay of developmental and acculturative tasks and th...

This article reviews contemporary issues in the study of self and identity and introduces the special issue. Particularly highlighted are the need to integrate the various currents in self and identity, the need to study the role of context in the development of self and identity, research on self and identity in ethnic minority and international populations, and studies of national identity. T...

BACKGROUND It is well known that traumatic brain injury often changes the way the patient perceives reality, which often means a distortion of the perception of self and the world. The purpose of this article is to understand the processes of identity change after traumatic brain injury. CASE REPORT We describe progressive deterioration in personal identity in a former physician who had susta...