Psychology

• Psychology of Self


  The representation of an individual based on his experiences from the home, school and other groups, organizations or affiliation he engaged in.
• Psychology of self


  • Focuses on the representation of an individual based on his experiences
  • Deals with questions of 'who am I?' or 'what am I beyond my looks?'
• The self is one of the most heavily researched areas in social and personality psychology
• Drawing on caves suggests that sometime during the dawn of history, human being began to give serious thought to their nonphysical, psychological selves
• With the advent of written history, writers would describe this awareness of self in terms of spirit, psyche, or soul
• Cognitive Construction


  A cognitive approach that focuses on the mental processes rather than the observable behavior
• 1. Self


  The self as knower, or the pure ego, the consciousness itself
• Me-Self


  The self as known, consisting of the physical or material self, social self, and spiritual self
• Components of the Me-Self

  • Physical or material self
  • Social self
  • Spiritual self
• Global Self-esteem


  A personality variable that represents the way people generally feel about themselves, relatively enduring across time and situations
• State Self-Esteem


  Temporary feelings or momentary emotional reactions to positive and negative events where we feel good or bad about ourselves
• Domain Specific Self-Esteem


  How people evaluate their various abilities and attitudes, making distinctions on how good or bad they are in specific physical attributes, abilities and personal characteristics
• Ideal Self


  The idealized image that we have developed over time, based on what our parents have taught us, what we admire in others, and what our society promotes
• Real Self


  The part of ourselves where we feel, think, look, and act, involving our self-image
• Wide gap between the ideal self and the real self


  Indicates incongruence and an unhealthy personality
• Multiple Selves


  The capacities we carry within us from multiple relationships, created in our relationship with other people
• Unified Selves


  Well-being comes when our personality dynamics are congruent, cohesive and consistent, with the ego remaining at the helm of the mind, coherent and organized
• True Self


  Based on a sense of being in the experiencing body
• False Self


  A necessary defensive organization, a survival kit, a caretaker self, the means by which a threatened person has managed to survive
• Agent Self


  The executive function that allows for actions, how we make choices and utilize our control in situations and actions
• Core features of human agency

  • Intentionality
  • Forethought
  • Self-reactiveness
  • Self-reflectiveness
• Self-Efficacy


  The measure of one's ability to complete goals, the belief that they are capable of performing actions that will produce a desired effect