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Threats to Identity

Self-Identification and Social Stress

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Book cover Coping with Negative Life Events

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping ((SSSO))

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In the physical sciences, stress is a relative concept that reflects the pressure or force on a body to deform its shape versus the strength or resistance of the body to hold its shape. When external force exceeds internal resistance, the body bends and ultimately breaks, losing its integrity. If internal resistance is greater than external force, the integrity of the entity survives.

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