Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
Self-Concept & Self-Esteem Self-concept is a self-description based on how you perceive yourself, with that said the very essence of your emotion is derived from self-concept and as a result from that, self-esteem… which is a self-evaluation that is rooted in your self-concept. Only your beliefs are what influence your emotions, even if that belief is what you derive from another person. Given a personal scenario; I started working out on a consistent basis, the more I worked out the more my self-concept improved, and as a result of that so did my self-esteem. I felt better and my emotions were significantly more stable than prior to working out. Although self-esteem is a result of self-concept they have very many similarities. Say if someone calls a girl fat and ugly, the typical anorexia background, regardless of whether or not she doesn’t want to believe she is fat and ugly if enough people say it, her self-concept will be a reflection of their influence upon her belief. This additionally impacts the girl by decreasing her self-esteem; as her self-concept goes down so does her self-esteem, they are a correlative relationship. The correlation is impacted by more than her social self though; her material self is very much a prominent aspect in this certain set of circumstances, the ideas of her social self often times influences her material self through ideas such as “My clothes are too big” or “My clothes must be ugly too.” Several aspects of our cognitive self are indicative of the rest of our self’s. Although this might be over speculation… when you see a much higher percentage of suicide rates in younger aged citizens, where our social self is definitely the most prominent factor in our self-concept, the idea of how much all these parts play an influential role in a snowball effect within a person’s self-esteem can only conclude that all of our self’s are very much a real aspect of our daily lives. This idea is known as reflected appraisal, the
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