Made by:

Ameer Ahmed Khan

M. AqeelAqeel Hanif

Who & What You Actually Are?

The Self ConceptSelf Image How You View Yourself or What You think that You are.

Self Concept Includes

Feelings and thoughts about your strengths and weaknesses. Perceptions about Yourself. Emotional States. Talents. Likes & Dislikes. Roles. Values.

Development of Self Concept

A. Others’ Images of You:

Looking Glass Self

Reflected Appraisal

Ego Boosters & Ego Busters

B. Social Comparisons:

Superior / Inferior Same / Different

C. Cultural Teachings:

Culture Effects Our Self Concept

D. Our Own Experience and Interpretations:

Sources of Self Concept

Cultural Influences on Self ConceptIndividualistic

CultureCollectivistic Culture

<- Orientation ->

<- Reward ->

<- Value & Security ->

Characteristics of Self-Concept

1.It Effects Communication.2.It is Subjective.3.It Resists Change.4.It is Flexible (can be

changed) if it is healthy .5.It is Multi-dimensional.

Effects Communication:Our Self Concept leads us to high or low self

esteem.

High Self Esteem: Everything is positive and good when we are positive and good. Like when we are happy, everything is glowing and beautiful. We find boring things amusing too. So we can communicate in a better way.

Low Self Esteem:

Everything looks hurting when we are in low self esteem. Like when we are sad, everything seems to be sad and colorless. We feel sadness, anxiety and criticism on ourselves even when we did nothing. When we think that we have no value, we are nothing then we can’t communicate in a better way.

It is Subjective:Our own thinking and ideas are included

in our self concept.

It Resists Change:

We get new things and then after some processing we make them our belief and then we don’t change it even when those things become obsolete as times changes and new data becomes available as per new conditions.

Flexible if it is Healthy:

We change with time or the conditions change with time and we have to change according to them and it is nature.

If we have a Healthy and Positive Self concept then it can be changed with time and in accordance with the new conditions and variables.

Self concept should be flexible.

It is Multidimensional:

Private Me Desired Me Presenting Me:

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