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...
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...