When a Good Friend of Yours Is Diagnosed with Arthritis

Multiple Choice

When a good friend of yours is diagnosed with arthritis, he doesn't want his friends at college to know. "People think of it as an old-person disease," he says. "I think my friends will look at me differently if they know I have it." He is experiencing a threat to his:

A) Social identity
B) Psychological reactance
C) Ego permeability
D) Rhetorical salvation