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• Physical self


  The body which we interface with our environment and fellow being. It is a tangible aspect of the person that can be directly observed and examined.
• Physical self


  • The basic parts of the body are the head, neck, chest, arms, and legs
• Physical self


  • The body performs its functions least well during infancy and old age
• Heredity


  The biological process of transmissions of traits from parents to offspring
• Environment


  The factors to which the individual is exposed after conception to death which includes learning and experiences
• Physical self according to William James


  • The physical self or body is an initial source of sensation and necessary for the origin and maintenance of personality
• Physical self according to Sigmund Freud


  • His construction of self and personality makes the physical body the core of human experience
• Physical self according to Erik Erikson


  • The role of bodily organs is especially important in the early developmental stages of a person's life
• Physical self according to Carl Jung


  • The physical body and the external world can be known as psychological experiences
• Self-esteem


  A person's overall sense of self-worth or personal value
• As our physical self, dictates how we act in front of other people it also defines how we will manage of self-esteem. Yet, this self-esteem is vital on how we form positive and healthy relationships with people around us.
• Younger women and girls tend to have poor body image
• Developing self-esteem


  • Understanding that healthy, attractive bodies come in many shapes and sizes
• Types of self-esteem


  • Inflated self-esteem
  • High self-esteem
  • Low self-esteem
• Impostor syndrome


  A psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud
• Causes of poor body images

  • Parents emphasis on thin ideal body lead girls to experience body dissatisfaction
  • Bullying and peer pressure have been associated with greater body dissatisfaction
  • Media such as television, advertisements, music, and movies. They are filled with good-looking faces, making women and men more concerned with physical attractiveness
• Effects of poor body images

  • Girls who have higher body dissatisfaction are likely to experience depression, low self-esteem, and eating disorders
  • Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which the person refuses to eat for fear of gaining weight which can result in severe starvation and death
  • The disorder mostly afflicts females between the ages of 12 and 40, although men may also develop it
• Beauty (traditional view)


  Among the ultimate values along with goodness, truth, and justice
• Plato's view on beauty


  Connected beauty to love and desire
• Aristotle's view on beauty

  The chief forms of beauty are order, symmetry, and definiteness
• David Hume's view on beauty


  Beauty is no quality in things themselves'; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
• Francis Hutcheson's view on beauty


  The perception of beauty does depend on the external sense of sight
• A person who is perceived as attractive makes more money than a person of below-average looks
• Halo effect


  The tendency of people to rate attractive individuals more favorably for their personality traits or characteristics compared to those who are less attractive
• Culture


  A social system that is characterized by the shared meanings that are attributed to people and events by its members
• Beauty (Merriam-Webster definition)


  The quality of being physically attractive or the qualities in a person or a thing that give pleasure to the senses or the mind
• Cultural traditions can either be positive or negative influence on body image and on self-esteem
• Concept of beauty in different cultures

  • In Egyptian art, beauty is portrayed in women with slim, high waist, narrow hips, and long black hair
  • Women with full figure and rounded hips was considered beautiful during the Renaissance period
  • Some tribes (e.g. Africa) during the medieval age they consider chubby, fat, or plump women beautiful
  • People in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia considered flat noses to be the most attractive
• Standards of beauty have changed over time based on changing cultural values
• Characteristics of traditionally considered beautiful people

  • Clean and unblemished skin
  • Thick shiny hair
  • Well-proportioned bodies
  • Symmetrical faces
• Importance of beauty


  These features indicate youth, health, good genes, and fertility
• People tend to view attractive people as good, happier, smarter, and better people
• Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful in the inside
• Material self


  The aspect of the self that relates to the things we consider ours, those with which we have an emotional attachment and had significantly invested on
• William James: 'The material self is the "Sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands, and yacht and bank-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down not necessarily in the same degree for each thing, but in much the same way for all."'
• Material self


  Tangible objects, people, or places that carry the designation my or mine. Anything that we evoke emotional feelings to, like things. persons, and experiences that we have in our lives are part of the self.
• We are what we have
• Adolescents


  • Tend to worry about their bodies and physical appearance
• Clothes


  • Represent the self. The style and brand of clothes becomes a symbolic significance.
• Components of material self

  • Body
  • Clothes
  • Books
  • Bed
  • Money
  • Car
  • House
  • Other possessions