PERSPECTIVE OF

“SELF”
1st week
 SELF
 Denotative-
an individual person as the
object of his or her own
reflective consciousness.
 PSYCHOLOGY
the study of either the cognitive


and affective representation of

one's identity or the subject of
experience.
CARL ROGERS (1959) BELIEVES THAT THE
SELF-CONCEPT HAS THREE DIFFERENT
COMPONENTS:
 • The view you have of yourself (self-image)

 • How much value you place on yourself

(self-esteem or self-worth)

 • What you wish you were really like (ideal-

self
SELF-IMAGE (HOW YOU SEE
YOURSELF)
SELF-ESTEEM (THE EXTENT TO
WHICH YOU VALUE YOURSELF)
 High self-esteem  Low self-esteem
(we have a positive (we have a negative
view of ourselves view of ourselves)

Confidence in our own  Lack of confidence

abilities  Want to be/look like
Self-acceptance someone else
 Not worrying about  Always worrying what
what others think others might think
 Optimism
 Pessimism
 PHILOSOPHY
 describe essential qualities
that constitute a person's
uniqueness or essential
being.
 SOCIOLOGY

dynamic, responsive process
that structures neural
pathways according to past
and present environments
including material, social,
and spiritual aspects
 ANTHROPOLOGY

is the scientific study of
humans and human
behavior and societies in
the past and present
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 The self in the
western and eastern
thought