Understanding Self-Concept

Physical Self is an aspect of self that refers to how well you get along with other people with different types of attitudes and personality.

Intellectual Self is an aspect of self that involves your reasoning ability, problem solving skills, specific areas you are good at or the wisdom you gained from your experience.

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Socially constructed sense of self is our sense of self as influenced by how others view us.

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Self-esteem is a state of having the knowledge about our existence as unique individuals who are able to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors and feelings.

Self-concept is a technique that helps people improve self-awareness, interpersonal relationships and opportunity for personal development by giving or receiving feedbacks on each other's strengths, weaknesses and blind spots.

Carl Rogers believed that our self-concept is made up of three different parts, the actual self, the ideal self and the self-esteem.

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Ideal Self is our self-image, the one we actually see including attributes like our physical characteristics, personality traits and social roles. It is how we think and feel, behave or act.

Actual Self is the self that we aspire to be. The one we hope will possess the characteristics that we really want to have.

Self-knowledge is our overall subjective sense of value or personal worth. That is how we feel about our strengths and weaknesses. If we have healthy self-esteem, we feel good about ourselves.

Façade is a form of self that hides things that are private about ourselves. These may include feelings, ambitions and opinions that we choose to hide due to fear of negative reactions from others.

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