UTS

• Cultivating a healthy self

  1. Focusing on your unique qualities

  2. Focusing on your education

  3. Participating in a variety of sports or activities

  4. Taking up a new hobby or learning to play an instrument

  5. Setting and reaching new goals

  6. Being an inspiration to others
• Material self


  (according to William James) the objects, places, or even people which have the label "mine"
• Possessions are viewed as extensions of individuals' identities
• Material self


  (according to Russel Belk) "we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we possess"
• The identification of the self to things started in our infancy stage when we make a distinction from self and environment and others who may desire our possessions
• As we grow older, putting importance to material possession decreases
• Material possession gains higher value if we use material possession to find happiness, associate these things to significant events, accomplishments and people in our lives
• The possessions that we dearly have to tell something about who we are, our self-concept, our past, and even our future
• Composition of material self

  • Body
  • Clothes
  • Family
  • Home
• Bodily self


  Inner most part of our material self
• Extracorporeal self


  The extended self
• Body


  • We are directly attached to this commodity that we cannot live without
  • We strive to make sure that this body functions well and good
  • Any ailment or disorder directly affects us
  • We have certain preferential attachment to or intimate closeness to certain parts because of its value to us
• Clothes


  • The style and the brand of the clothes becomes a symbolic significance
  • The fabric and style of the clothes we wear bring sensations to the body and can affect our attitude and behavior
  • Clothing is a form of self-expression
• Family


  • These people are likely to shape and influence the development of self-identity
  • Our siblings and parents hold a great important part of our self
  • What they do or become affects us
  • When their lives are in success, we feel victorious as if we are the one holding the trophy
  • In their failures, we are put to shame or guilt
  • When they are in a disadvantageous situation, there is an urge to help
  • Pets could also symbolically define a person's identity
• Home


  • It is earliest nest of our selfhood
  • Our experiences inside the home were recorded and marked on particular parts and things in our home
  • The home is thus an extension of self, because in it, we can directly connect our self
• Effects of material possession

  • Possessions can be used as status symbol
  • Material possessions can be a reflection of hard work and success
  • Material possession can make people more motivated to work harder to achieve them
  • Lack or loss of material possessions can be disruptive to the mental health of some people
• The thought that a single item can successfully inform others about us is equivalent to thinking that a single word from a poem can convey the meaning it creates in the context of the poem
• In commodity fetishism, consumers worship goods and believe that goods have magical powers to bring happiness, provoking a pervasive and ongoing expectation that happiness lies in the next purchase or "I would be happy if I could just have..."
• DO I REALLY NEED THIS?: 'A very important question to ask oneself before making a purchase'
• Material self


  (according to William James) the objects, places, or even people which have the label "mine"
• Possessions are viewed as extensions of individuals' identities
• Material self


  (according to Russel Belk) "we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we possess"
• The identification of the self to things started in our infancy stage when we make a distinction from self and environment and others who may desire our possessions
• As we grow older, putting importance to material possession decreases
• Material possession gains higher value if we use material possession to find happiness, associate these things to significant events, accomplishments and people in our lives
• The possessions that we dearly have to tell something about who we are, our self-concept, our past, and even our future
• Composition of material self

  • Body
  • Clothes
  • Family
  • Home
• Bodily self


  Inner most part of our material self
• Extracorporeal self


  The extended self
• Body


  • We are directly attached to this commodity that we cannot live without
  • We strive to make sure that this body functions well and good
  • Any ailment or disorder directly affects us
  • We have certain preferential attachment to or intimate closeness to certain parts because of its value to us
• Clothes


  • The style and the brand of the clothes becomes a symbolic significance
  • The fabric and style of the clothes we wear bring sensations to the body and can affect our attitude and behavior
  • Clothing is a form of self-expression
• Family


  • These people are likely to shape and influence the development of self-identity
  • Our siblings and parents hold a great important part of our self
  • What they do or become affects us
  • When their lives are in success, we feel victorious as if we are the one holding the trophy
  • In their failures, we are put to shame or guilt
  • When they are in a disadvantageous situation, there is an urge to help
  • Pets could also symbolically define a person's identity
• Home


  • It is earliest nest of our selfhood
  • Our experiences inside the home were recorded and marked on particular parts and things in our home
  • The home is thus an extension of self, because in it, we can directly connect our self
• Effects of material possession

  • Possessions can be used as status symbol
  • Material possessions can be a reflection of hard work and success
  • Material possession can make people more motivated to work harder to achieve them
  • Lack or loss of material possessions can be disruptive to the mental health of some people
• The thought that a single item can successfully inform others about us is equivalent to thinking that a single word from a poem can convey the meaning it creates in the context of the poem
• In commodity fetishism, consumers worship goods and believe that goods have magical powers to bring happiness, provoking a pervasive and ongoing expectation that happiness lies in the next purchase or "I would be happy if I could just have..."
• DO I REALLY NEED THIS?: 'When a person is about to make a purchase, he/she should ask himself/herself this very important question'