Outline Of Self The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the self: Self – an individual person, from his or her own perspective. To you, self is you. To a different person, self is that person. One’s self is a subject of philosophy; psychology and developmental psychology; religion and spirituality; social science and neuroscience. In general Human...
Psychology Of Self The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one’s identity, or the subject of experience. The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology derived from the distinction between the self as I, the subjective knower, and the self as Me, the object...
Self-concept One’s self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself. Generally, self-concept embodies the answer to “Who am I?“. Self-concept is distinguishable from self-awareness, which refers to the extent to which self-knowledge is defined, consistent, and currently applicable to one’s attitudes and dispositions. Self-concept also differs from self-esteem: self-concept is a cognitive or...
The Self The self is an individual person as the object of one’s own reflective consciousness. This reference is necessarily subjective, thus self is a reference by a subject to the same subject. The sense of having a self—or self-hood—should, however, not be confused with subjectivity itself. Ostensibly, there is a directness outward from the...