Psychological Self Flashcards
(18 cards)
Consists of things that belong to us or that we belong to. Things like family, clothes, our body, and money are some of what makes up our material selves.
Material Self
our social selves are who we are in a given social situation. For James, people change how they act depending on the social situation that they are in
Social Self
- is who we are at our core. The spiritual self is more concrete or permanent than the other two selves. The spiritual self is our subjective and most intimate self. Aspects of an individual’s spiritual self, include things like his/her personality, core values and conscience that do not typically change throughout a lifetime.
Spiritual Self
There had been many postulations that one’s self may be fragmented into different parts and different selves which may be in conflict or needs regulation from each other.
Global versus Differentiated Models
(a.k.a. Trait self-esteem), is a personality variable that represents the way people generally feel about themselves. It is relatively enduring across time and situations.
Global Self-esteem
(a.k.a. Feelings of Self-Worth), refers to the temporary feelings or momentary emotional reactions to positive and negative events where we feel good or bad about ourselves during these situations or experiences.
State Self-esteem
(a.k.a. Self-Evaluations), is focused on how people evaluate their various abilities and attributes. This is making distinctions or differentiation on how good or bad people are in specific physical attributes, abilities and personal characteristics.
Domain Specific Self-Esteem
The self as the regulating center of an individual’s personality ad self processes under the guise of id, ego and superego functioning (Pajares & Schunck, 2002), rocked Psychology as the biggest breakthrough in understanding the psychological self.
Real and Ideal Self Concepts
with her Feminine Psychology, established that a person has an ‘ideal self, ‘actual self’ and the ‘real self’.
Karen Horney
with her Feminine Psychology, established that a person has an ‘ideal self, ‘actual self’ and the ‘real self’.
Karen Horney
an imaginary picture of the self as the processor of unlimited powers and superlative qualities, is developed
idealized self-image
the person one is in everyday life, is often despised because it fails to fulfill the requirement of the idealized image.
actual-self
which is revealed only as a person begins to shed the various techniques developed to deal with the basic anxiety and to find ways resolving conflicts.
real-self
according to K. Gergen, are the capacities we carry within us from multiple relationships. These are not ‘discovered’ but ‘created’ in our relationships with other people.
Multiple Selves
, as strongly pointed out in Traditional Psychology emphasizes that well-being comes when our personality dynamics are congruent, cohesive and consistent.
Unified Selves
distinguished what he called the “true self” from the “false self” in the human personality, considering the true self as based on a sense of being in the experiencing body and the false self as a necessary defensive organization, a survival kit, a caretaker self, the means by which threatened person has managed to survive (Klein, 1994).
Donald W. Winnicott
The agent self is known as the executive function that allows for action. This is how individuals, make choices and utilize our control in situations an actions
Agent Self
lies in the center of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory. It is the measure of one’s ability to complete goals. People with high self-efficacy often are eager to accept challenges because they believe they can overcome them, while people with low self-efficacy may avoid challenges, or believe experiences are more challenging than they actually are.
Self-Efficacy
