The Importance of Self Concept to Personal Communication
The observation of yourself as an individual is called self-concept.
Self-concept also embraces how well you know yourself through the
medium of thoughts, feelings and emotions.
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Perception plays a key role in the making of self-concept. How you
perceive yourself and how you think others perceive you, shape your
self concept. This means that if you have difficulty with perception
your self concept is likely to be distorted. For example, someone that
thinks everyone loves them and agrees with every idea of theirs may
have trouble with their own perception of what people really think of
them. Because it is very likely that not everyone does agree with them
and love them.
The way you feel about yourself or view yourself reflects foremost in
how you behave and the characteristics you possess. Therefore
self-concept strongly influences personality. If you feel that you are
a quiet person you will end up being a quiet person, this is a classic
example of the "Self Fulfilling Prophecy". This is the concept that
how you think you behave will lead to the expectation that you should
behave like that and therefore you will fulfil that expectation. An
example of this prophecy is when a child is predicted to behave badly
in a certain social situation by his or her parents'. If somehow this
prediction is communicated to the child, he or she will 'play' up to
the prediction and the expectations of the parents will be fulfilled.
Consequently the self fulfilling prophecy occurs when a prediction is
fulfilled.
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... perceive, whether good or bad will condition how you view yourself
(self-concept). In turn this will help or hinder personal
communication depending on how your self-concept has been shaped.
On the whole, Self-concept is made up of 8 intertwined main factors
and many more than relate and link in. These are Perception,
Personality, Role, Communication Skills, Empathy, Thinking, Motivation
and Socialisation. When any of these factors change or disappear,
self-concept is affected.
When self-concept is affected it changes the way we describe and view
ourselves. If we view ourselves badly then personal communication will
suffer and if we feel good about ourselves then we will be more
outgoing and confident and more successful communication will take
place. So Self-concept is very important to personal communication.
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“ I Am the Messenger,” by Markus Zusak is a story of a young man named Ed Kennedy, a hapless 19 years old cab driver. He thinks that he has no purpose in life whatsoever; his life is so boring and miserable. He is the lazy type of guy who procrastinates a lot and never does anything to change where he is at in life. His mother, even, told him that he was lazy and all he did was driving his cab around the city and playing cards everyday with his friends at the nightclub. “He said we’d just pack up and go, and look where we are,Ed. We’re still here. I’m her. You’re here, and just like your old man, you’re all promise, Ed, and no result”(Zusak, p.244)
In the future, there is a man named SOH-CAH-TOA. SOH-CAH-TOA is pretty tall, has black hair, hazel eyes, and is 30 years old. He wears a red shirt and jeans most of the time because clothes are expensive in the future and only rich people have a wide variety of clothes to choose from. He has a funny personality and loves to crack jokes. He is pretty skinny because he loves to take jogs.
but a lazy bum, as can be seen from the line "You were never anything
Willy Loman which may sound Low Man- man, writers often select the names for a reason, has two personalities one strong and one weak dreamer. The dreamer is optimistic, enterprising, including content and happy and the other is inconsistent, insecure, hypocritical, and unconscious. Both appear in all the advice he gives to his children. He is very contradictory, he is a person with excellent manual dexterity that insists on getting into sales business. He does contrary to what he wants. He is a country man, likes nature but lives in the city.
This article, Life as a Maid’s Daughter by Mary Romero, takes the reader through the life a girl named Teresa. She lived a unique life, because she was able to see the differences ways in which different races and social classes of people live in America. Teresa and her mother Carmen are lower class Mexican-Americans, and the people that Carmen is a maid for are upper-middle class white Americans. Throughout her life Teresa learns about different aspects of herself (i.e. race, social class, gender, and family) through interactions with her biological family and the families of the employers.
...the passive salesman and the aggressive quitter. Where Willy Loman quickly makes society's ideals his own and then falls victim to his own dissatisfaction, Lester achieves happiness because he rejects the standards that society sets for a middle-aged man.
This theory highlights beneath aspirations and consequences of the possible occurrence when two respondents change their styles of communication. Theorists under this theory contests that during communication, people adjust or accommodate their speaking style to one another. This is mostly done through convergence or divergence. People with stronger racial or ethnic groups highlight their identity through divergence. In case of social approval mostly by the powerless individuals, convergence is their most adopted communication mode. I need to bring to your attention that this theory does not imply that you are powerless, but rather it is praise in disguise. Considering that you and your best friend come from different countries, it only means that you come from a more humbled ethnic and racial background. This should however not discourage you to part ways, after all the best of friends do not share everything, but they understand and acknowledge their differences and that is what makes the friendship unique. Having known your best friend’s background, you need to understand her whenever she makes certain remarks. You should not take her remarks personal since you know her better and you know that she only has your best interest at heart (Cicciarelli, 3).
Happy Loman is now a different person from when he lived under the same roof with his father. Happy is now a self-sufficient, proud, confident, and eloquent gentleman. He has moved out into the city and found an apartment to his liking and an adequate paying job. Happy also has turned into a lady's man. He has gained what his brother Biff has lost. Spotting a beautiful lady in a restaurant Happy automatically approaches her with the utmost confidence that she ...
Self-concept is how an individual views themselves, kind of like a mental picture of an individual’s knowledge of themselves. This idea of self-concept stems from the person’s behaviors as well as their attitude toward their surrounds, their structured beliefs of reality, and their values of what’s right and wrong. I believe all of these things are influenced by what the individual has experienced throughout their lifetime. In most cases, our self-concept is different from the way others view us simply because only we know how we behave when ‘no one is looking’. When I am asked to describe myself in terms of self-concept, I usually respond by saying I am an outgoing individual who is strong in my faith, who enjoys to take on many tasks, and who is determined to do the best I can to reach my goals. I can now see how that response reflects all aspects of my attitude, beliefs, and values.
Describe self-concept. My take on self-concept is that it is my self-image or basically my ego. What I feel about myself and what I know about myself. My knowledge and I have learned about myself, the positive and the negative. The me that was defined by my surroundings, peers, parents, culture, race, all that put together and mixed up is me and my self-concept.
I chose the topic of self-concept through interpersonal communication because I had an interest in it. This interest is because I didn’t understand that one’s self-concept affected the way one is perceived by others. I learned self-concept through class discussions, but I wanted a better understanding of how communication affects one’s self-concept and how it affects one’s perception
I guess the easiest thing that we have learned since we arrive in this world is interacting with other people. As we grow and develop, we get to see and interact with different types of people and we try to understand them through social psychology. We understand why people act the way they do and why some judge others and social psychology made us understand why we tend to decide with others and g with their judgment rather than have our own minds about the matter. Social psychology introduces as to our self and to our group or the people we belong with.
The Self-Concept is a complicated process of gaining self-awareness. It consists of mental images an individual has of oneself: physical appearance, health, accomplishments, skills, social talents, roles, intellectual traits, and emotional states and more –all make up our self-concept.
A reflection of the self is an important tool to use to figure out whether or not your self-concept provides you with a positive self-esteem. First ask yourself, ‘who am I?’ and once you figure that out, determine if your perception of yourself is a positive one. If it’s not positive, you might want to consider making a change very quickly in order to live a fulfilling life. An even more important tool is to compare your own self-concept to the perception others have of you. I interviewed four people and asked them three questions. Those questions were as follows. “How do you perceive me physically? How do you perceive me socially? How do you perceive me psychologically?” Their overall physical perception of me is, I am beautiful,