[2.1] Communicating with the Self

• intrapersonal communication


  the act of sending messages to oneself
• self-concept


  the composite of ideas, feelings, and attitudes people have about themselves
• who said this "the composite of ideas, feelings, and attitudes people have about themselves"?

  Hilgard, Atkinson & Atkinson, 1979
• who said this "Our attempt to explain ourselves to ourselves, to organize into a system our impressions, feelings, and attitudes about ourselves where our self-perceptions change from situation to situation and from one phase of our lives to another"?

  Woolfolk, 1980
• who said this "Self-concept is a belief about who you are while self-esteem is an evaluation of who you are. Self-concept refers to our perceptions about ourselves. Self-esteem refers to the value each of us places on our own characteristics, abilities, and behaviors. If people evaluate themselves positively or like what they see, they have high self-esteem"?

  Pintrich & Schunk, 1996
• who said this "The ways in which we think about and describe ourselves (self-concept) and the degree to which we like those descriptions of ourselves (self-esteem) have an inevitable impact on our human interactions"?

  Civikly, 1981
• first principle of direct reflections


  The self-concept is largely shaped by the responses of others. People gauge the verbal and non-verbal responses of significant people in their lives to make judgments which means that we are deeply influenced by people's attitudes towards us.
• second principle of perceived self


  Points to the question "What do I perceive to be his attitude towards me?" People imagine how they appear to others and imagine others' judgments of such appearance.
• third principle of the generalized other


  In any organized social interaction, the individual self-concept is shaped by applying to the self the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors of the norm.
• who made the "Tenets of Social Comparison"

  Pettigrew, 1967
• the Johari Window


  A framework of self-awareness that illustrates how intrapersonal communication is a function of our different selves.
• who made the Johari Window

  Luft & Ingham, 1955
• what is this?

  Wiseman-Barker Model of Self-Communication

  
• self-concept


  refers to the overall idea of who a person thinks he or she is
• self-esteem


  refers to the judgments and evaluations we make about our self-concept
• Our self-concept is largely shaped by our direct reflections, perceived self, and the generalized other.
• social comparison theory


  states that individuals have an inherent drive to evaluate themselves by comparing their abilities, opinions, and attributes to those of others
• Wiseman-Barker Model of Self-Communication


  emphasizes the element of life orientation as an underlying, highly influential factor in a person's way of communicating with himself as well as others
• The Wiseman-Barker Model of  Self-Communication shows that intrapersonal communication involves 8 stages: reception, discrimination, regrouping, symbol decoding, ideation, incubation, symbol encoding, and transmission.
• self concept


  a belief about who you are
• self-esteem


  an evaluation of who you are
• self-concept


  refers to our perceptions about ourselves
• self-esteem


  refers to the value each of us places on our own characteristics, abilities, and behaviors