Importance Of Self Concept

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The topic I’m choosing to write about is all the steps of self-concept., how it builds all throughout your life. “Self-concept- an idea of the self constructed from the beliefs one holds about oneself and the responses of others.” Self-Concept is how you perceived by how you looks at yourself, the things you’ve gone through in your life to make you who you are today. Existential Self, Categorical Self, Self Image, Self Esteem and Self Worth, and Idea Self all shape your self concept. Self-concept develops at such an early age, and continues until you die. Everything in life shapes to who will be and who you are in the future.(McLeod, S. A. (2008). Self Concept.)
Existential self-concept is the most basic part of the self-concept, this development starts when you

Seeing the little details about yourself “I’m tall, I have hazel eyes, red hair, light complexion.” A lot of people hate how they look, due to social media and how you’re “expected” to look in today’s day in age. The people you hangout with shape how you see yourself, “you are who you hangout with.”, how they talk to you and tell you little details about yourself. What makes you mad, what gets under your skin, little noises that grind your gears, those are your personal traits. Figuring out who you are, and where you came from, “I’m from a universe.”, thinking abstract about life.("Practice Wisdom. May 2016.)
I think the most important one is your “idea self”, how you think you should be, how you want to be, what you could do different to be different. We all view ourselves in extreme ways, from what people have said to us about ourselves to what we see in the mirror. Most girls want to be a size two, 105 pounds, long healthy hair, perfect skin, everything like you see on social media. Most boys want to be built up with abs, dark skin, perfect hair, all they see on social media. Social media has the biggest effect on