Self-perception

 

Self-perception includes self-concept, self-esteem, and self-presentation. The self-concept is self-assessments or a person's view of herself or himself about personality, knowledge, skills, abilities, occupation, hobbies, awareness of physical attributes, and other human traits. An image of oneself could affect a person's ability to interact with others.

Self-esteem is our opinion of ourselves and is our overall evaluation or appraisal of ourselves our self worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions such as success, social status, pride, confidence, and shame. The High self esteem is a good opinion of ourselves and low self esteem is a bad opinion of ourselves. Self-esteem is very important because it influences the way we think, act and relate to other people. Self-esteem affects individual's potential to be successful.

Self-presentation is the use of behavior to control images which are presented to others during social activities in order to please others and to establish an individual's public image to the individual's ideal. Behaviors could be influenced by the concerns of self-presentation. An early interest in self-perception or self-concept appeared in a number of different disciplines but was primarily located in philosophy. A significant explanation for self-perception has consistently been one that described self-perception as a development of social meaning, that is, the belief that human beings respond to the environment on the basis of the meanings they ascribe to elements of that same environment. Self-concept is a dynamic mental structure that motivates, interprets, organizes, mediates and regulates interpersonal behaviors and processes. Riding & Rayner, (2001) reported that up to 17 different conceptual dimensions were to be found in contemporary definitions of self-concept. This uncertainty had been further reinforced by researchers casually and interchangeably using terms such as self-esteem, self-image, self-perception, self-worth, self-regard, self-respect, self-confidence, self-efficacy, self-awareness, self-consciousness, self-evaluation, and self-concept.

 

                                                  Self-view of Self-perception

 

My Self-perception is that I am a confident person in general and value knowledge and skills. With an analytical personality, I believe I am a good researcher and you should, as a result of the work that you do. At work, I am dependable, responsible, efficient, and helpful. With friends, I consider myself caring, loyal, and supportive.  Looking good is important to me but I will not buy expensive items to make me look good. It is stressful for me to be in the situation when something unexpected happened. Playing sports every day, I believe that health is the one of most important things in our life. I think that I am a reasonable person.

                                                     Close friend's view

My close friends thought that "you are a confident person, like to look good and you are overly invested in your appearance. But you are not an overly emotional person. You do somewhat care about how people see you. If something occurs that makes you feel unattractive, it has the potential to make you feel a bit stressed. You do care about others sometimes but not always. Your health and a feeling of well being are not overly important to you. While you do like to be healthy, you are not really worried about getting sick and you deal with it appropriately. You do not really have much of a compulsive personality"  well Doc…are they correct?.

              I am surprised for the perception of my friend that I overly invested in my appearance and I did not care about others enough. It is probably right that “people tend to recall events they attribute to themselves and not to a situation or other people” (Champoux, 2006)