My Self Concept: Self And Self-Concept

Self Concept
Self-concept is defined as the knowledge, a multi-dimensional construct, of an individu-al’s perception one may have about his or herself such as personality traits, physical characteris-tics, abilities, values, goals, and roles. During my infancy stage, I started to organize and acquire information, which helped me to recognize the perception of self in the social world. As a child, I learned how to interact in the social world from the environment and my learning experiences. The self-concept is an internal model, which refers to my physical characteristics, hobbies, occu-pation, abilities, skills, personality, etc. My self-concepts refer to my personal social identity. A significant factor in self-concept is an individual’s self-perceptions and how he or she interacts in the social world is.
The self-concept helps organize my thinking and guide my social behavior. Social expe-riences are also exceptionally influential in my development of self-concept such as the roles of success, failure, social comparisons, and individual play. What others think have much to do with my development and how I perceive myself. Social experiences are basically the foundation of who I am. The roles that I playing now and will be playing in the future, such as college student, future parent and spouse are absorbed into my sense of self. For example, since I am daughter, student, aunt, sister, and friend, these roles integrate together to discover my sense of self-concept. Self-schemas are significant element of self-concept, which are specific beliefs, and mental temples. I use them to define myself and organize my world. Self schemas enable me to vision myself in the future, my possible self. It helps me to vision what I want, such...

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...that I continue to demonstrate a resistance to settling down in a location for long, even to this day. I cannot find a way to tie this to the anal stage of development, however. Therefore, it remains simply an observation of early childhood experiences and how they manifest in me today.
In the phallic stage, from about age 3 to age 6, I focused on my genitals. I observed the differences between males and females and may direct my awakening sexual impulses toward the parent of the opposite sex. It is at this stage that I had to resolve the Oedipus complex (if male) and Electra complex (if female). I would then begin to identify with my mother and emu-late my mother out of fear of losing her love. Memories and experiences that I had with my fami-ly during this phase of my life do not demonstrate an Electra complex, nor do I see it obvious in any way in present day.